Mordekaiser, an unstoppable League of Legends Champion has his recall spell glitched and is sent to Equestria. As the Master of Metal he finds his experiance less than enjoyable and wants to go back home to bring pain and suffering to his enemies.
A League of Legends Crossover. Mordekaiser, a fabled champion of the League of Legends known for manipulating pain for his own benefit and his enemy's downfall. Portrayed as a frightening being covered from top to bottom in sharp metallic armor while wielding a giant spiked mace as if it were nothing. So it makes sense why his arrival into Equestria through an error in the recalling system might make some ponies uncomfortable. They should be, because he doesn't like this place one bit and wants to go home at any cost.
Either he can be granted the penance of returning to Summoner's Rift to inflict his torment upon his enemies or he could stay in Equestria and do the same thing. Would that be enough reason to get the Kaiser of Morde back to where he belongs?
It was a day like any other here at Summoner’s Rift. The natural wildlife was flourishing in its dense jungles of shrouded mystery, the purple minions were happily attacking the blue minions, completely mindless of what they were doing but desperate to attack their enemy’s defense tower. From their linear style of attack, the minions were easy prey to the tower’s high-velocity energy orbs of destruction. It was pretty much back and forth for the most part of the day.
The land of Summoner’s Rift was a place where these ‘champions’ of lore would fight each other for the glory of battle and winning. Even though the natural area is roughly only the size of a city park, much work and magic comes into repairing the location before and after each match played by these champions. But who are these ‘champions’? Well, there are more than a hundred of them currently in employ, yet they are all different in their own aspects. You have humans, shape shifters, plant creatures, beings on fire, animals and things from the undead. Most of them are pretty frightful to face against.
However.
There is one that gives a new meaning to the words, fear and pain.
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Scraping against the dirt floor of the middle lane, a group of individuals stop in their tracks and scan their horizons. There are five of them; the one with the bow raises her arm to signal to the others behind her: a heavily armored man heavily dressed in blue cloth on top of his golden armor stood proud and straight, a cheerful blonde woman with a staff, a ferocious blue-furred wolf sniffing the air for any scent of his enemies, and a man carrying a deadly executioner’s axe being bored out of his mind, he let out a sigh wanting to do better things than waiting around.
“Hide in that bush,” the archer signals to the heavily armored man. He nods his head and runs towards the shrubbery before diving into it and out of sight. “Everyone assume your positions, if we time this right we’ll get an easy gank on the enemy team.”
They split up into pairs leaving the archer with the executioner.
“How many did I kill before?” The executioner asked the archer as he stood straight up in his armor with his menacing axe swinging around in a lucid motion over his shoulder.
“You mean WE, Darius,” the archer said with a scornful glare towards the axe-man before turning back her attention to the ambush path. “There were three enemies we took down, so I’m assuming the other two of their team will want to push this lane.”
“Just bring them down to half of their life and I’ll do the rest,” Darius laughed viciously as he carefully maneuvered his giant axe onto his chin and balanced it into the air. Shortly once it has been perfectly balanced on his sturdy chin, he kicked out his legs and did a little dance.
The archer face palmed, clearly Darius did not care about the term ‘stealth’.
It wasn’t long until a tiny insignificant rodent-hamster wearing a tiny hardhat coloured in cameo had scurried to the middle of their ambush point.
“Captain Teemo reporting for—”
Instantly everyone leaped out of their hiding spots, weapons drawn. The bulky armored man shouted with undying force, “DEMACIA!” and spun his sword around his body in a great carousel of turns which was repeatedly slammed into the mouse’s face. The wolf ran up to his prey and clawed the living daylights out of it as the blonde woman raised her staff in the air with magic and shot out a rainbow bolt at the creature, burning it with the spicy taste of rainbows.
Amazingly, it was still alive and pitifully tried to run away. The archer released a large ice arrow from her bow which pierced through the trees and foliage to hit the bloodied furball and slowing his movements in ice.
“S-so co—old,” it shivered before looking up to see the most frightening human with an oversized axe running towards him.
Darius leaped into the air, grasped his axe in both hands and brought it down onto Teemo, an easy kill.
“That was the most pathetic thing I ever had to witness. Ashe? By team, didn’t you mean Teemo? Ha ha ha!” the executioner laughed as he slumped his axe over his shoulder and regrouped with his allies. The look on the face of the archer was one that had enough of this guy’s obnoxious attitude. As Darius pranced towards them, he stepped on a cloaked mushroom on the ground with blew up into his face and covered him in power.
They couldn’t help but laugh, especially the archer as Darius grumbled and dusted off the fine particles with his gloves.
“GAREN! YOU DID GREAT BROTHER!” the blonde-haired woman leaped onto the heavily-armored man’s shoulder and hugged it.
“It was a team effort, Lux!” He rose his sword up into the air and a flash of light glinted against its metallic edge.
“FOR DEMACIA!”
“DEMACIA!” Lux also shouted.
“I work for Noxus you fools!” Darius shouted at them, still annoyed from the mushroom bomb. He crossed his arms and muttered under his breath, "Why would they pair me up with these Demacian idiots..." They didn’t even hear him and they continued to celebrate their kill, though Ashe wasn’t a Demacian, she cheered with them as well.
The wolf didn’t say anything during this time. His nose has been sniffing the air nonstop after Darius landed on that fresh plump of meat. The air… it smelled of death, not the normal kind of death, but something far worse. It feared him. His nose then sniffs harder, and he catches something else which activates his uncontrollable bloodlust for prey.
Pain.
“Hey, Warwrick my fuzzy mutt. Everything’s alright?” Darius placed a welcoming hand on the wolf’s shoulder.
Darius felt his hand get ripped away as the wolf sprinted into a dense pile of jungle with a blood thirst in his eyes. The group of Demacia warriors stopped murmuring to themselves and looked to where Warwrick had run away.
Darius turned his head towards them and said, “Maybe he caught the scent of someone, you know how he is when he sniffs someone out in the jungle. He’ll be back.”
A wolf’s cry echoed from the dense foliage of trees and underbrush.
“See? He found something.”
A few minutes later and a panting blue wolf covered in scarlet blood limped out from the jungle and nearly collapsed in front of his teammates.
“Good boy! Who did you murder now?” Darius said with a friendly pat on his scarlet-covered back.
The wolf howled in pain and everyone’s looks changed to one of concern. Garen helped Warwrick upright and on closer inspection his face went grim.
“I don’t think that’s someone else’s blood…”
A bush rustled within the dark jungle.
“Oh crap, everyone brace yourselves!” Ashe shouted as she drew an arrow and took aim into the jungle followed by everyone else.
A few moments there was a void of silence, they could all hear their own breaths under their mouths. Suddenly, a great metallic suit of armor carrying a threatening mace stepped out from the jungle. It walked on two legs, it had the body of a human, but from that sickening glare of two red dots inside the shadow of its armor it let everything know that it was far from human.
It was Mordekaiser.
He stepped out casually and without anyone else to back him up.
“Are you kidding me? This is a 1 vs 5 fight! We can take him!” Darius brutally laughed back at his team before turning back towards his foe.
Perhaps it was Darius’s pride masking the stench of decrepit death emitted from the hulk of metal, that he didn’t notice the beast readying its mace firmly in its grasp.
Before anyone could make a snide remark, the metallic being exploded to form a storm of metallic shards and debris surrounding its body and charged towards the five people with his mace securely grasped and rippling with thunderous energy.
What they didn’t expect was that he was LAUGHING as he charged them. His hue's of laughter echoed with a pounding force on their eardrums.
This caught them unaware as he was soon in range, before Ashe could fire her arrow, and when she did, it bounced off its armor as if it were a twig. The metallic barrier orbiting around him slashed through the group of five, and each time it did so, it grew stronger.
“YES, GIVE ME YOUR PAIN!” its voice echoed out through the dark void of its helmet.
He slammed his mace down upon Warwick’s wounded body and he fell, a light appeared around his quivering broken body and he vanished.
“He got Warrick!” Lux shouted in anger, she blasted Mordekaiser with her rainbow laser bolt. It merely laughed at the expression of Lux’s horrified face as he stepped out from the rainbow cinders that burned the ground around him. He shot his mace out forward and it extended numerous times to hit everyone in the face. Before anyone could get over their daze, he raised his arm and enveloped Lux in a sickly cloud of grey smoke, moments later she fell.
“NO!” Garen shouted in a roar of disbelief. He couldn’t have lost his sister, all he wanted to do in life was protect her, and he failed.
From Lux’s disappearing body, a spectral version of her rose from the ground and stood on two legs. Upon seeing this Garen ran to her in a burst of glee.
“Garen! It’s a trap!” Ashe shouted to him, but it was futile.
“Lux! You’re not dead!” Garen wrapped his arms around the spectral apparition, but they went through her form as if she wasn’t even there.
“I serve lord Mordekaiser now. Brother… I’m so sorry,” the spirit wept.
Before Garen could do anything, the spectral apparition of his sister launched a magic beam into his face. He stumbled back in disarray and was slammed in the back by Mordekaiser’s mace as he finished off the warrior.
“GAREN!” Ashe and Darius shouted.
Garen coughed out, in his dying breath he only had one thing left to say, “For… Dem… acia…”
Ashe launched a few more arrows to weaken Mordekaiser’s defence, but every so often she could feel a mace being slammed into her and it gave her pain. Darius finally had enough that his team was losing this badly to one champion and leaped up into the air for his signature attack. Before his axe landed on Mordekaiser’s head, the metallic being launched his ranged mace attack and was able to substitute Darius’s damage with his magic armor powered by pain.
"HOW DELIGHTFULLY PAINFUL!”
Mordekaiser slammed his mace into Darius’s arm and tore the executioner’s axe away, his mace slammed into Darius and took him out.
Darius laid down on the ground and coughed out some blood, “Why didn’t my attacks hemorrhage you to bleed?”
“I CANNOT BLEED IF I AM NOT ALIVE. THE SAME WILL SOON BE… IN YOUR CASE.” Mordekaiser brought his mace down.
Ashe was the only one left, and she could tell Mordekaiser was close to death himself, despite murdering the four members of her team. She couldn’t run away if she wanted to either, all she could do was keep spamming her skills and hope she takes down Mordekaiser before he—
Too late.
He grabbed her up in the air in one arm, his metallic glove spikes dug uncomfortably into Ashe’s skin. He laughed smugly before leaning his head in towards her ear.
“This whole… living thing… is highly overrated.”
Soon her body fell to the ground, discarded of all its life and she vanished into a bright light back to her respawn point. A loud voice from the League announcer boomed overhead Mordekaiser.
“PENTA-KILL!”
Mordekaiser laughed, he had to admit this was fun. Despite the amount of times he had done this before. Getting pentas for him was an easy feat, as there was nothing he couldn’t beat.
He now felt the weariness of his soul and decided it was high time he returned back to base. A blue light enveloped Mordekaiser as he was waiting to be recalled and spend all the gold that he earned to be even more unstoppable than he was before. The light grew brighter and soon the whole world around him turned white.
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Mordekaiser let out a breath of tired decay from his helmet and opened his eyes. Nothing in life or death could have prepared him for this moment.
“What… is… THIS!?”
Everything around him was so brightly coloured, the sun was wonderfully shining and there was even a rainbow behind the clouds in the distance. A cheerful red pastel four-legged creature trotted near the colossal metallic monstrosity and caught his attention.
“YOU, CREATURE! WHERE AM I!?” Mordekaiser shouted at the pony, who finally noticed the scary heap of metal talking to her and she screamed.
She ran away from Mordekaiser as fast as she could and left him there on his own. All he could think about was how much that creature had looked like Hecarim back at the champion hall. Those two became short-term friends when they discovered they were both ‘more-or-less dead’ and had a lot in common about dealing with souls. They did fall out as allies when Hecarim questioned Mordekaiser’s method of giving souls infinite pain and punishment, yet they always did have a bit of understanding when it came to the ways of the dead. That or maybe they just like beating the hell out of each other every time they meet. You know, for ‘fun’.
These ‘four-legged creatures’ he could possibly tolerate, this worldly colour scheme?
Absolutely not.
He noticed a small settlement a short distance away to where the equine had run off to. The buildings were just as brightly coloured as the landscape; needless to say, it was not Mordekaiser’s liking as he had to shield his helmet hole with his armor hand to avoid being blinded by all this… colour. He couldn’t look in front of him; the sky had a rainbow taunting him, and who looks at the ground? So the only thing he could do was turn behind him and hope there wasn’t some type of giant mega-coloured rainbow of happiness ready to burn into his soul.
In surprise he noticed that there was a large stretch of gloomy forest and jungle that didn’t seem to have the traditional colouring of this area. Mordekaiser had a choice: he could go into town, take in a lot of penta-kills and try to burn the town into the earth. Mordekaiser would’ve chosen that option if it weren’t for the amount of colour hindering his red-dotted eyes. His other option would be to happily wait out in that dark forest, surrounded by a filth colour-scheme of decrepit grime and mud so that he can find his bearings without burning his red glowing eyes.
Even though he’s practically unstoppable, he never rushes into battle without being fully prepared. (Actually, that’s a lie. It’s because he gains his increased magic armor shield power when he’s in battle dealing pain. So he’s never truly prepared and sometimes his teammates would beret him about it. But he didn’t care. He was Mordekaiser.)
“To the forest it is, I can avoid the town and bring my plague for it. Later…”
Mordekaiser heavily clunked in his pristine armor as he travelled to the safety of the forest, but little did he know, he was entering the scary and overly-compensating Everfree Forest filled with frights and dangers that make that bump in the night or make a ghost scare a pony from under the kitchen sink. That forest does all of those terrifying analogies and more.
Mordekaiser was in for some danger. And the Everfree was in for some Mordekaiser.
Everfree, an ominous concoction of corrupt flora and fauna, the very branches themselves seeming to creak with every step forward. Filth and grim covered the swampy ground while darkened terror lay in the foliage of the leaves. Seemingly alive, stalking its prey until winded and lost. This place was a blight compared to the land of the shining sun, a striking place of sickness. Unmoving yet spreading in through the soil, through the air, this sickness grew in strength. He could feel it underneath him. This is a compelling analogy for his persona, the perfect place for Mordekaiser to be in Equestria.
He found this place… satisfactory.
Through his hollowed-out armor he could sense all the pains of this forest: predators hunting prey, the wounded seeking shelter, killing, maiming, and death. Suddenly he felt a movement in his senses; something was in great pain and nearby. Mordekaiser will take this kill for himself, steal it if necessary. His lust for bringing pain on this land will finally be sweetly sustained. His armor clunked heavily back and forth as he dashed towards the increasing throbs of pain he sensed.
A voice echoed through the forest, “P-please… I was only trying to h-h-help…” followed by a fierce series of growls. More than one?, Mordekaiser thought. If he had a face, he would be grinning right now.
He blasted through a tree with his mace and entered the area where the pain was coming from. From his vision he could see two small wolves made of sticks, along with a larger one, were circling a small defenseless yellow creature that looked similar in shape to that equine Mordekaiser had met before. They raised their ears and turned to where the noise of Mordekaiser smashing through the jungle had originated. Their eyes were hungry for blood and food, the small equine creature with a pink mane was covered in scratches and bite marks probably caused by these creatures. She whimpered in pain and went terrified to see this hulking monster of metal step towards them.
The wolves barred their fangs to this intruder, but the massive figure did not hesitate in his movements. Soon the wolves realized they wouldn’t be able to fear this being away, they turned their attention back to the scared pony. This was their kill and they weren’t going to have it robbed from them. In a sudden flash of movement the wolves howled and leapt towards the pony, who had given a cry for help.
Mordekaiser could have just sent his mace out flying and split into everything’s faces, but he knew there wouldn’t have been any time to secure the kill he wanted. He answered the cry of plea, this creature’s pain he can manipulate. He raised his hand just as the wolves were about to land on the pony and instantly a large shield of floating spikes and debris covered the terrified yellow creature. The shrapnel and shards of metal cut into the wolves’ birch skin and their howls of bloodlust turned into howls of pain. The pink-maned pony snuck a peek from one of her eyes and saw that she was still alive and the wolves were wounded.
“AH YES. Your pain is MINE!” the giant suit of hulking metal laughed in delight, becoming stronger and stronger the more shrapnel impacted in the wolves’ carapace. They had to back off from their prey and turned to face Mordekaiser with anger in their glowing eyes. The two smaller wolves leapt up at him. Mordekaiser swung his mace to smash one across the chest midair, this swinging motion turned his back and the wolf landed on it. It tried to take a bit and instead got a mouthful of impenetrable metal. Mordekaiser lifted his arm back and picked up the wolf. He swung him into the air before slamming his mace into the wolf and sent him flying through the air and hitting the larger wolf in the head before falling and going limp.
The larger wooden wolf saw this and shook its head in disappointment for its lesser subordinates. It tensed and a large glow of green light protruded from its body and gripped the dead wolves. It roared as a mysterious green essence floated into its body, followed soon by the floating bodies of the wolves disassembling and coming towards it.
”I SEE. Another creature that can also manipulate PAIN to his doing. WHO WILL BE THE BETTER? The answer is so SIMPLE, THAT I DON'T EVEN HAVE TO ANSWER!” Mordekaiser reveled in this sight of magical draining.
He raised his arm one more time and his shrapnel shield encircled the pile of twigs entering the growing timber wolf’s body. It ended its drain and was howling in pain as it fell down to its stomach. The metal shards were brushing and tearing apart the insides of the wolf, no doubt this was painful. Mordekaiser relished in every moment as he felt the power of his opponent’s pain surge through him.
“I AM FINALLY SUSTAINED, AND YOU WILL NOW DIE!”
The small pony watching all of this was horrified by what the creature had already done and said, but she was wounded and still bleeding. She couldn’t move and was forced to watch this.
Mordekaiser casually went over to the wailing Timber Wolf giant and kicked it to its backside. He grasped his mace in both hands as he went on top of the great beast’s head and raised his weapon past his back.
His mace came crashing down onto the wolf’s head; he raised it once more and brought it down in an earthquake of tremors. Finally he slammed his giant metallic boot into the wolf’s throat, supposedly finishing it off.
Mordekaiser stepped off the battered body of the wolf and raised his head up into the sky. His sinister laugh boomed for miles of the Everfree forest. The scared pony had to cover her ears from hearing the threatening laugh of violence; she had enough torment today and just wanted to go home. No more wolves, no more Everfree, no more giant metal beast swinging his incredibly large, incredibly spiked weapon all day.
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t block out his sounds of victorious malice.
“AHAHAHA! HUE HUE HUE HUE! HAHAHA!” The beast shouted over and over again.
He looked over at his victim once more and a thought crossed his mind. From the small pony’s perspective she could see that he was searching around the fallen Timber Wolf for something.
“No gold? Every creature I’ve slayed drops a considerable amount of gold on their corpse!” Mordekaiser said with a growing annoyance. "Strange..."
He figured that since he couldn’t find it around the dead wolf, the spoils of his victory should be inside it. He lifted the wolf’s head and with his other arm, he plunged his metallic hand down the wolf’s wooden throat canal.
The pony wasn’t expecting that.
Mordekaiser kept going deeper into the wolf’s body but couldn’t feel anything that felt like gold, only twigs and leaves. The small metal curves on his suit of armor cut into the wolf’s trachea every time he went deeper. Suddenly, Mordekaiser felt something all too familiar to him.
Pain.
“IT SEEMS YOU ARE STILL ALIVE!”
The timber wolf made a small whimper as it tried to regenerate itself.
“HOW IRONICALLY PAINFUL!” he laughed with menace.
He yanked his arm out from the beast’s body, slicing up the many twigs of its insides. It weakly howled in pain. He grabbed his mace one more time with a single arm and slammed it into the creature’s head.
He continually kept slamming his weapon down across the creature, twigs were breaking but the wolf wasn’t dying.
“If you will not die, THEN I WILL FEAST ON YOUR PAIN FOR ETERNITY!” Mordekaiser shouted as he raised his mace up into the air with crackling electric power from the beast’s pain.
“STOP!” A voice had shouted from behind him.
Mordekaiser turned his neck a little; his arms still rose with his weapon and saw the small yellow pony shivering in both pain and fear. Mordekaiser nearly forgot about her, but she did have a point. He wasn't doing anything other than wasting time. He stored his mace on his back and knelt down towards the barely breathing beast.
“Your pain sustained me for enough. But you cannot seem to pass from this world physically.” Mordekaiser raised his hand towards the wolf; it shut its damaged eyes in fearful anxiety of what else this horrible creature will do to it. “YOU WILL NOT PASS AT ALL!”
A cloud of sickly grey smoke rose out from the wolf as its twigs decomposed and its body turned to dust, left in its place was a spectral apparition of the wolf. It looked at itself in surprise and in pain; the caster of this spell had latched onto his soul. A child of the grave, being held onto by the metallic menace of horror.
He was not free, not even after death.
Mordekaiser scoffed at his handiwork and turned to face the small creature who was desperately trying to get away by using her wings. She noticed his cold emotionless gaze and did a small but weak squee.
“Um… th-thanks for… saving… me. T-those wolves were just r-rude. But I do-don’t think—”
Mordekaiser got to eye-level with this strange pony, “Don’t what?”
“You- you’re so… violent.” The pony ended with a scared meep.
Mordekaiser was ready to claim this kill with his pet spectral hound, but before he could command it to strike down this yellow Hecarim-type creature, a blast of purple magic sizzled through the air and impacted a tree next to him.
“FLUTTERSHY!” a voice screamed through the forest foliage. A moment later, a small purple creature that looked similar to the one Mordekaiser was kneeling in front of had appeared.
“Twilight!” Fluttershy gave a weak cough of glee.
The purple pony quickly noticed Fluttershy’s wounds and then noticed the giant hulking suit of armor that stood up from next to her.
“You MONSTER! You hurt her!?” the pony shouted in rage as she charged up a beam of vivid purple light into her horn. She released it at Mordekaiser and a purple shield covered him from his metallic helmet to boot.
Mordekaiser didn’t take being ganked just now to be a compliment. He raised his arm and commanded his spectral pet to sick it’s fangs into this creature. The giant white ghost of the Alpha Timber Wolf did as its master ordered and charged for the purple pony. The pony shouted in fear and held a hoof up to protect herself.
The wolf leapt at her and as he did his body started to vaporize mid-air, his tail turned to dust and moved towards his fangs. He vaporized through the pony and only left dust behind. Mordekaiser face palmed himself on his lack of keeping time until his pet would’ve disappeared. I hate how my little pets only last for a few seconds...
With the threat passed, the purple pony quickly ran up to her friend and comforted her before turning back to the trapped metal being inside the shield. She trotted up to him in a victorious stance and looked at him through smugness about how her spell had easily trapped him.
“Wasn’t expecting that, are you?” the purple pony said smugly through the purple vision of the shield.
“Um… Twilight, I don’t think you should stand so close…”
“What? He’s completely harmless now. He’s trapped!" she raised her hoof to him. "There is absolutely no way he can escape this high-level defense spell!”
Mordekaiser’s shield of shrapnel and metal shards exploded around his body, it cost him his own health but he had no alternative. The force of the bouncing shards against the magic barrier was too much and the barrier smashed apart in pieces. A bit of the shrapnel cut across Twilight’s face with a minor scratch left behind. She recoiled in pain backwards and as soon as she recovered he was met with a massive ton of metal staring back at her, arms gripping heavily onto a mace of spikes.
The one who would strike first would have the advantage of not dying, it was a standoff. Twilight could feel the sickness through the air of how powerful this creature was and Mordekaiser could feel the amount of magic potential she possessed.
A pair of yellow-bruised hoofs went in between them and pushed them away. “ENOUGH!” Shouted the small yellow pony named as Fluttershy.
“Twilight, thank you for rescuing me, but he wasn’t the one who did… this,” she showed the cuts and bite marks to Twilight. Twilight reached to her and gave her a comforting hug who felt sympathy for her friend. “It was those Timber Wolves. I was out gathering herbs from Zecora when these beasts showed and attacked me. I tried to reason with them, I even offered them a cookie! But they attacked me, I don’t know why!” She practically broke down into tears as Twilight held her in comfort on her shoulder, giving a sneer to Mordekaiser who was watching all of this.
“But then before they could hurt me any more than they already did, that beast-- IT… showed up and stopped them.”
“How did he stop them?” Twilight asked with a concerned look, Fluttershy receded into relieving all those horrible things she witnessed just moments ago and shivered in fear. Mordekaiser swung his mace around so that it rested with its spiked head on the ground.
“Right… and then that strange timber wolf attacked me. After I trapped him in that spell…”
Mordekaiser couldn’t stand waiting here any longer about these two creatures talking about him.
“ENOUGH!” He slammed his mace into the ground and it made a tremor to get their attention. “I don’t care who you are, I don’t even care that I haven’t finished either of you off yet! Just tell me where I am, so I can go HOME. DO I HAVE TO MAKE YOU MY SPIRIT SLAVES TO COOPERATE?” His voice boomed as he raised his arm and a ghastly grey glow appeared around it.
“NO, NO!” They shouted in fear, “You just want to go home? Is that it?”
Finally some progress.
“Hmhm,” he chuckled quietly to himself. “Yes. I loathe this land of yours. You all look like Hecarims yet don’t act like him in any form. Tell me where I am, and how I can get out of this place and back to Summoner’s Rift.”
“I don’t know what any of that is, I don’t know what a Hecarim is bu- but…” Fluttershy nearly collapsed onto the ground in exhaustion. "W-Why can't I feel my... my..." and she passes out.
“Look, maybe we can all get some answers later, but right now we need to get Fluttershy home to heal and get some remedies to help her!” Twilight said with urgency as she lifted Fluttershy onto her back.
“I know a good remedy… DEATH.”
Twilight rolled her eyes as she made her way out from the forest with Mordekaiser reluctantly following in her hoofsteps. He grunted to himself trying to describe the situation he was currently in inside his head.
“Ooh, how I despise this place…”
Chapter 3: Mordekaiser, I would Like You to Meet...
They soon arrived at a small cottage out from the forest and basked within rays of the shining sun. Mordekaiser would’ve been perfectly fine with having the sun horrifically burn a few members of the wildlife as in the cases of desolate deserts, but he could feel that this light only brought warm and tender feelings. Oh, how much had wanted to turn that sun beacon into a corrupt ball of ash. They entered through the door of the cottage, animals from inside greatly greeted the two ponies, as soon as Mordekaiser stepped inside they went quiet. They stood away from him; they could feel his sickness and felt his power through their fear. Twilight placed Fluttershy down on a sofa and turned to Mordekaiser.
“I really hate to do this but I need you to stay here for a short while so I can find my friends. Please, for the sake of Fluttershy and everything in Equestria, don’t leave or break anything,” Twilight gave a look of spite but underlying it was an expression of hope.
“You better hurry then, she’s not the only one that is sick,” Mordekaiser said sinisterly as he took a seat next to the wounded pony. Twilight didn’t know what he meant but she took his advice and quickly rushed out the door to find her friends.
Mordekaiser was alone in the room with Fluttershy and being fearfully watched by at least 50 animals and house plants. He looked at the wounded pony and gave her a look of pity, that is, his hallowed helmet appeared the same along with the floating particles of his dark soul flying inside it shrouded in mystery, nothing has ever seen Mordekaiser without his armor, but if they did they were going to be in for a frightfully painful surprise.
Normally Mordekaiser wouldn’t have done this but lifted his arm into the air as he gathered life from the plants in the room within the palm of his metallic-sharp hand and compressed the energy into a small grey orb which he pressed into the pony. A few moments later, her cuts and bruises she sustained were gone and the nervous fidgeting in her body ceased and she was happily asleep without any injury. He doesn’t know why he did that, but Mordekaiser, just for a moment, saw a bit of Hecarim in that pony. He remembered the time Hecarim would help protect him from an enemy gank at the mid lane and keep them distracted for Mordekaiser to score an easy couple of kills. Then things fell apart between the two and had to go their separate ways, needless to say he ended up having less kills than normal. No matter for there would always be more. He felt like he had to return the favor besides the point. Even though he is a soul corrupted through the powers of twisting pain, he was once human.
ONCE.
Besides, this should help get him quicker to reach his goal of leaving this foul place. Once he knows what to do he’ll act on it in a heartbeat.
And it might be brutal.
A couple of minutes passed with him listening to the gentle rise of Fluttershy’s breaths, he took some time to stay static in his armor and sort of ‘rest’. The animals noticed that Fluttershy were better and figured this giant threatening-looking creaturee couldn’t have been all bad. A squirrel first climbed on its shoulder, then a small kitty sat down on his lap. Finally, a white bunny hopped over to him and noticed the voidness of this suit of armor’s helmet. If he figures out that this creature was really just an inanimate object then maybe they wouldn’t be scared anymore and the rabbit would be a hero!
He climbed up Mordekaiser’s chest-plate and reached into his helmet, he was about to fall in when a voice inside boomed at him.
“I don’t recommend falling there, for you might NEVER GET OUT!”
The shout scared the animals off him and flung the rabbit across the room. It tried to pick itself up, but it felt oddly sick and was only able to manage a limp. He opened the door outside to get some fresh air, perhaps that would stop this bad feeling in his stomach. As he opened the door he could see a group of five ponies all galloping towards the cottage. Yep, definitely no time for meet-and-greet.
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The ponies arrived at Fluttershy’s cottage to see Angel, her pet rabbit vomiting in a nearby flowerbed.
“I’ve got a bad feelin’ about this,” the orange pony of the group said with a gulp.
They stopped by the door and peered in to see Mordekaiser and Fluttershy were still resting on the sofa. Twilight couldn’t help but give a sigh of relief. The others were freaking out in screams and cries of terror in seeing the nightmare abomination that leered at them with its glowing red dots from its helmet.
“What in tarnation is that thing!?” the orange pony shouted, ready to buck her enemy really hard in the helmet.
“Stop Applejack!” Twilight shouted at the orange pony, “He’s an ally, he saved Fluttershy!” The pony stopped in her tracks and looked at Twilight with a confused look.
“How is HE an ally!? Don’t you see the amount of spikes and the sense of doom he has all over him!? He looks like a possessed paper shredder running on max!” a rainbow maned pony said with an outburst.
The being stood up from the sofa, his presence was menacing and the other ponies thought he was ready to attack them, but all he did was sling his mace over his shoulder and relax.
“Flattery will get you nowhere.” His voice sent chill down their spines. “I’m not your ally and don’t plan to be, the pink haired creature is fine. I used my powers to drain the plant life in this room to put into her fragile soul.”
A few moments of terrifying fear later, Fluttershy calmly woke up from her spot on the sofa and gave a great big yawn before noticing her friends looking at her with their mouths agape.
“Oh… hello, did I do something… wrong?” she squeaked, feeling the eyes of her friends burrowing into her head.
The only pony who could say anything was an alabaster unicorn that let out a confident, but nervous, “Thank you” to Mordekaiser.
“Um… yeah, I guess we kinda owe you one,” the rainbow one said sheepishly while moving her hoof to scratch the back of her mane.
“That’s right, YOU DO.”
Mordekaiser’s reply startled them. Threateningly he asked them, “What can I do to escape this infernal manifestation of hell, to be rid of your kind and back to my lands where I can continue my reign of torment?”
“Why in Equestria would you not want to live in a place as beautiful as this?” The alabaster unicorn spoke up. Mordekaiser leaned down on one knee to look at the ponies closer at eye-level through his menacing helmet.
“Because if I don’t return home, I will make this place MINE INSTEAD!" his voice boomed with the ferocity and force of thunder, scaring the helpless ponies as they cringed in fear. "Your land and people will BURN to the ground until there lies nothing but wasteland. All the souls of this land will be placed under my command and everyone will serve eternity in pain and suffering!”
They were all taken back by this, they doubted that he would actually do that, but they realized that he could do it nonetheless if he wanted to.
“You can’t do that, Princess Celestia won’t let you!” Twilight barked at him.
If Mordekaiser had an eyebrow, it would be raised right now. “Could this same Princess make me leave this place before I get a penta?”
“I don’t know what that is, but yes! She can!”
Suddenly a pink pony broke up right between them with a smile and held both of them around their necks with her hooves in a hug. “GREAT! So we can solve these problems with one solution!”
“Who is this?”
“What? Argh,” Twilight slapped herself in the forehead. “I knew I forgot something!”
So in order Twilight introduced to Mordekaiser: Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity. All Mordekaiser could think was the order went like: Sheriff Caitlyn, Hecarim after eating too many crayons, that pink one had the personality of that rainbow-laser girl, Lux, but the foreboding fear of Kha’zix of showing up at the worst of times, and finally there was… Taric the gem knight.
Oh, how all these ponies acted just like his enemies, destroying them will be all the better.
“Right, so Princess Celestia should be able to help you get home, wherever that is. She’s the most powerful being in Equestria. And she lives right over there in Canterlot,” Twilight pointed with her hoof out a window to a city embedded into a cliff.
“I just have to get to this ‘Canterlot’ and find this Celestia?”
“Well, you’re going to need an invitation. She’s not just going to see anyone on such short notice, plus I think your… appearance might frighten away most of the citizens… So that invitation may be a bit longer…” Twilight said, trying not to sound that Mordekaiser would have to wait any longer than he has to.
His mace end crashed into the floor and stared at them with his infuriating red eyes before his voice echoed through Fluttershy’s house in a demonic vengeance. The stink of pain and death could be felt on his exhale.
“I do not need an invite to join this party!”
“OOH! A party!? Where?”
Mordekaiser shoved the pink pony out of his way and the others before ramming through Fluttershy’s flimsy wooden door with his shoulder and escaping down the road. His laughter had left a trailing weight deep inside everypony’s guts, as they realized what just happened.
Mordekaiser was on the loose and they only just met!
“Everypony after him before he does something bad!” Twilight said to her friends before chasing down the hulking suit of armor herself.
Mordekaiser had enough of this place and was done listening to these inferior ponies, no longer would he have to wait in this infernal place of Hecarim’s happy place; he has to take this problem into his own metallic spiked hands. If this ‘Celestia’ won’t bring him back home, then he will make Equestria the new Summoner’s Rift.
And all shall know the true pain that Mordekaiser can inflict.
Chapter 4: Can Mordekaiser Run Faster than a Train?
As Twilight was chasing after Mordekaiser down the streets of Ponyville (everypony was running around in terror by this newcomer) she swore that she could hear that being’s laughter down a mile. According to some fancy mathematics involving triangulating the position between Twilight and Mordekaiser with the overall topography of Ponyville, Twilight calculated that Mordekaiser was heading straight towards the giant tree library.
Her giant tree library.
“Oh no no no! This is bad, so very bad!” She was shouting to herself.
Mordekaiser burst through another wooden door, this time leading inside a giant tree house; he could sense a great power dwelling within its walls. He noticed a baby purple dragon just waking up from a nap on the table and he ran towards its direction.
“Wha… Twilight?”
Instead of being greeted by twilight’s friendly smile, the young dragon was greeted by one powerful swing of Mordekaiser’s giant spiked mace. Twilight soon entered the house and she was shocked to see Spike unconscious on the floor.
“You monster!”
Mordekaiser noticed a large bag of gold coins on another table in his line of movement and he snatched it up within his mighty clutches.
“YOU THIEF! GIVE ME BACK MY BITS!”
He laughed, “Mordekaiser has slain the dragon! HUEHUEHUEHUE!” and he slammed through the walls of the tree house with his own body movement and left a large hole of his departure behind.
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Twilight ran through the streets of Ponyville, shrieks and wails were heard all around her as brightly coloured ponies rand past her in terror. She swore she saw something on fire in the corner of her eye, but ignored it as she raced down the streets bearing Mordekaiser’s heavy footprints. Her journey took her to a general store with its door busted wide open.
“HELP! HELP ME!”
Twilight ran into the store to see a panicked old mare having turned pale from fright.
“Did you see a large sharp monster guy running around?” Twilight asked her urgently.
“It… it…” The pony tried to breathe. “It just came in… took all these glowing red swords he called ‘Dancing Phantoms’ or something, I don't know... Then it dropped the money and ran through that wall over there,” she pointed to a large outline of Mordekaiser’s body in the wooden wall. "I never seen such an overpowered creature before!"
“Thanks.”
Twilight ran outside of the store and could see on the far horizon a bulky shining dot racing away from Ponyville. Her friends who were following her all this time finally caught up to Twilight with gasps of exhaustion coming from their mouths.
“No time to rest everypony! Mordekaiser is heading to Canterlot!”
“We must warn the Princess!” Rainbow Dash cried out.
“We’ll take the train; even that hulking brute can’t be faster than the Pony Express!” Rarity piped in.
They all nodded their heads in understanding and went straight to Ponyville’s train station. The train system is notorious for having the best clocked times of transportation within Equestria, but unfortunately for them, approximately five minutes ago, Mordekaiser became the fastest metallic object in Equestria.
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It took them only a few minutes to board the train, but soon they were blasting through high speeds of the train car they sat in, it would simply take a single hour before they reach Canterlot. Twilight looked outside of a window with a worried expression on her face. She has the largest feeling of a boulder within her gut and it made everything that much worse to deal with. An orange hoof went onto her shoulder and snapped her out of her mental anguish of what Mordekaiser would do when he reaches Canterlot.
“Twilight, are ya’ll feelin alright? We just need to get to Canterlot and warn the Princesses, ah know that if anyone can fix this running heap of metal problem, it’s them,” Applejack said with a courteous tone to her voice.
“I know Applejack…” Twilight turned her head back to the window, “I’m just really on edge right now. That shopkeeper said that Mordekaiser went sprinting out from her shop.”
Rainbow Dash piped in her head behind Twilight’s, “He can’t be faster than a train! This vehicle is almost as fast as I am!”
“You know what? You’re right Rainbow, there just isn’t any scientific explanation that would explain a heavy metal object like him that would be able to run faster than a steam-engine locomotive.”
“Um… girls?”
They turned their necks to see Fluttershy staring outside her window on the opposite side of the train car. She angled her hoof to point out the window and everyone saw something none of them could have expected. Mordekaiser was right outside their window, running along the same path as the train.
“How… HOW IS HE THAT FAST!?”
All they heard next was a maniacal laugh coming from Mordekaiser, who started to sprint towards the front of the train. Indeed, for Mordekaiser he could be proud of this achievement; that he was finally faster than a train carrying ponies. He emitted another laugh wondering what Hecarim might say to him if he saw this. Soon he will finally leave this blasted realm and be back to his own, destroying champions as he pleases. It wouldn’t be long now…
A rainbow blur went past him and knocked itself headfirst into Mordekaiser’s helmet.
“Owwww…” Rainbow Dash said rubbing her head as she quickly flew back to Mordekaiser’s speed alongside the train.
“When one runs faster than a train, one becomes a train. I so happen to be the PAIN TRAIN!” Mordekaiser’s voice bellowed another creepy laughter.
“How are you so fast? You’re a walking scrap heap!”
“Let me check your build,” Mordekaiser said with underlying malice as his arm reached out and grabbed onto Rainbow Dash. She struggled for a bit, but was unable to break free from Mordekaiser’s grasp. “Hold still, equine.”
With a throw he released her and gave a pity grunt under his breath.
“You have nothing; you carry nothing, and no one. In my world you would be called: a noob. You don't even belong in Bronze Tier, crayon pony.”
Taking a lot of offense from what he said, she huffed to him in rage, “Hey! You can’t call me a noob! You're right, I don't belong in Bronze, I deserve the highest skill lvl possible. I would be in gold tier!"
Mordekaiser laughed heavily at her, "Ignorance is bliss, it seems."
"You can't make fun of me! Not when I’m faster than you, even with all those swords that you’re carrying in your cape! Besides how did you do that?” Rainbow peaked behind his cape. "Did you staple these or something?"
Mordekaiser would’ve loved nothing better than to cause this rainbow equine endless suffering from being beaten at her best skill, what a great way to crush someone's moral by taking away the skill that defines them. However, something else had caught his attention. Something quite ancient and powerful indeed as they raced through the train’s path which was now covered with a thick layer of snow. It compelled Mordekaiser to go.
“It seems you are lucky today, crayon rainbow pony. Tell your Princess that she has time. After all, I haven’t destroyed her inhibitor…”
“Yet.”
With greater speed, Mordekaiser made a sharp turn to the right and ran straight into a field of endless snow. Rainbow Dash was left confused, she figured the best thing to do now would be to return to her friends inside the train. She flew up onto the train and went down a safety hatch which closed behind her with a clang.
“Rainbow, were you nuts!?” Twilight’s voice rang to her.
“You could’ve been hurt darling, he grabbed you and everything!” Rarity said with concern.
“It’s alright girls, he randomly just turned in that direction,” she pointed a hoof outside the window to where they could see a small bulky dot on the horizon. “He won’t be in Canterlot before we are now! Everything is going to be really cool!”
Rainbow expected praise, but instead all she hears was silence, and that the horrified expressions on her friends’ faces were telling a different story.
“Rainbow… the Crystal Empire is in that direction…” Twilight said with pupils dilated.
“Oooooooh…oooh... buck. This isn’t going to be good," she bit her lip. "Does anypony know what an inhibitor is?"
They all shook their heads.
Their thoughts went morbid as their locomotive quickly chugged away through the Equestrian plains, leaving behind a menace of metal free to do whatever he wishes. And they all knew whatever he might do in the Empire, will no doubt be just as bad for Canterlot should he eventually reach it.
Mordekaiser knew he had felt something and he was right. This feeling of ancient magic had lead him to an immense city, covered in crystals and regal decorations. Everypony minded when his large spiky metallic appearance expectantly showed up and started tearing through the streets.
He was leaving giant footprints from his heavy armor into the ground.
Soon he found what he had felt, what had urged him from immediately leaving this ‘Equestria’. It was a pure crystal heart, emanating blue light from under this large tower and gave power to its surroundings. If this world functioned anything like his, he would have to destroy his enemy’s ‘inhibitor’ in order to make them weaker and to attack their base.
He could definitely feel it’s power, surely without this power source, the base he will attack which is named, Canterlot, will be subject to the might of his metal power.
Mordekaiser took out his mace in one hand and proceeded to charge himself into the crystal.
“STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!” a voice belonging to a pure white unicorn with a blue mane shouted. “I will not let harm come to my citizens!”
“What about you then?” Mordekaiser gave his reply. And before the unicorn could even say anything, Mordekaiser’s mace slammed into his ribcage and knocked him aside; he was down in pain and clutching at his sides.
A pink unicorn-pegasus or pegacorn or unigasus… or... magical flying equine creature...
I will find a suitable name eventually. For now, I'll stick with ponies and equine creatures resembling Hecarim for the time being...
Anyways, the pink magical flying pony was next in his line of sight who was standing near the crystalline heart floating within a device structure. Mordekaiser was certain it was an inhibitor, and yet it looked strangely different to the ones in his world. It makes sense that this world is trying to mock him, why should it stop at equines and rainbows?
What did I do to deserve this fate? And no less, the inhibitor is A DAMN CRYSTAL HEART!
The winged unicorn was ready to attack him, but a rush of metal ran past her in a blinding blur of speed. The pony didn’t get enough time to react in awe before Mordekaiser ran straight past her with his train-like speed. His mace raised high over his head as he positioned his body for a deafening swing.
He pulled back and his mace struck the heart right at its centre, lightning and energy burst from the mace as it imbedded itself into the heart, and shattered it in an explosion of a million pieces. As the dust cleared up, Mordekaiser reveled in his accomplishment.
“You…you destroyed the…” the pink pony tried to say something, but there were only tears in her eyes. “NO! It’s impossible!”
Mordekaiser disregarded the pink pony, he assumed she was a princess of some kind but didn’t care. It didn’t matter what your position was if you weren’t able to respond and deal with threats. He’s partially dead; he knows this better than any colourful equine. He looked up to the sky to see a darkening atmosphere replace the bright sunshine and rainbows his eyes had burned from before when he gazed at them the few hours prior.
His menacing stare turned around to the city he had just invaded, scared ponies peeked out from their shelters of holes and homes gasping with their hooves over their mouths trying to muffle their sounds. None of them could believe that he really did destroy their precious artifact. The feeling of dread cascaded over each and every one of them. How did it feel to see the one thing that had given them hope and a sense of protection taken away from them in mere seconds? None could have expected that one day an iron giant will slam through their confidences and imaginings within a shower of horror and fear. Mordekaiser could sense all of their pain.
And he reveled in it.
He swung his mace back up to rest on his shoulder; his shadowy gaze turned to the pink pony who was now trying to comfort the stallion Mordekaiser had hit before. Her face went to a horrified expression when she saw his large metallic body make his way over to them.
With his battle-torn general’s cape flowing through the restless wind, Mordekaiser looked down upon these pathetic excuses with only one thing to say to them.
“HUE.”
Unknowingly to Mordekaiser, a dark shadow of ash was beginning to form around the remains of the crystal heart. It compacted together, giving legs and a body. Soon a body of an evil looking tyrant had completely materialized where the crystal heart used to be.
“I… livvvvvvvve,” the figure said with a heavy Spanish accent, its voice manifested a great evil within its echo of malice.
“Grrrr… Death could not hold me, gaaaah... for I, King Sombra have returned to enact my revenge on all of you crystal ponies! Hahaha…yes… crystals…” he licked his mouth with his serpent-like tounge, causing many ponies to recoil.
He laughed a bit more, and everypony who was terrified before are even more terrified now. It’s not every day they had to deal with a dead tyrant manifested as pure hatred.
Without any second glace, Mordekaiser lifted his arm towards the pony and curled his fingers into a fist.
“Ah good, a slave to help me leave this foul place.”
King Sombra didn’t know what happened next. First he was standing as a fully reanimated version of himself and soon his life essence had drained away leaving him as a pale grey ghost of himself.
“What!? NOO!”
Perhaps one of the most shortest “one versus one’s” in history, the irony of all of this was that Sombra had returned with a vengeance to re-slave the ponies of his empire only to now become Mordekaiser’s ghost slave and had serve HIM.
“Good game easy, well played, etcetera... etcetera,” he waved his hand with a bored expression for having to repeat these trivial sayings. “Though I don’t think it counts since you were already dead… you’ve only delayed my goal and now… you will repay me with your SOUL!”
For once in his life, King Sombra, the Dark Tyrant of everything fearful and terrifying, was scared.
Mordekaiser dashed away from the Empire as quickly as he came, and the spirit of King Sombra had no choice, but to follow this huge heap of metal through the frozen landscape. His once fluid words now garbled up into a ghostly speech of grumbles and grunts. Nevertheless, he did try his best to shout out insults as he was compelled to follow in the metal being’s footsteps and eventually the ‘soul-crushing’ labor he’s expecting.
All the crystal ponies just stared in total disbelief, they had no idea what just happened. Should they be sad that the crystal heart is destroyed, or glad that King Sombra is finally dead (again)?
The only sound that was made in the eerie snow-trodden city was by a blue haired stallion clutching his sides in pain on the cold ground.
“Did we—did we win, Cadence? Urgh… something makes me really want to nerf that guy, whatever it is.”
The pink pony next to his body could only stare ahead to the large metal creature that was disappearing over the horizon towards the city of Canterlot.
“I… I don’t know. I don’t even know if that would’ve worked…”
Mordekaiser’s journey of running had finally taken him to the city on the mountains. Canterlot, as it is called, or so confirmed the shopkeeper where he had exchanged all his phantom dancers for more damage potential items. The massive amounts of gold he had managed to farm up from his recent exploits was enough to sustain his desire and satisfaction of being reletively fed.
I can do with more gold... He looks towards the large and rather expensive looking city of Canterlot. A grin would've cascaded his face should he have one hiding under that helment of his. ... this city should suffice.
He usually felt that he was ready for most situations. But right now, he felt even more ready than that.
He stood at the entrance to the city with his mace held sideways from one hand to the next and with his cape billowing in the wind. His ghost companion stood next to him with a disgusted look on his face as he had to accompany his… master.
A growl escaped from his ghostly mouth.
Mordekaiser turned to him and said, “Do not fear our foes, for by the end of this day, they—will fear us!”
King Sombra’s spectral hoof connected to his forehead and he grunted again, thinking just how this metal hulk could have misinterpreted his grunt of dissatisfaction in being his slave.
“Let’s go my spectral equine, the sooner we strike, the sooner they will fall, ” Mordekaiser continued as he stepped menacingly towards Canterlot’s interior gate.
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As they casually walked, the more wealthy ponies of the nation of Equestria fled in terror once they’ve seen the massive amount of sharp metal attached to this creature they never seen before. Even worse still, the creature had a ghost with him and it looked hateful and disgusted about them.
“RUN! HE’S GOT A WEAPON!” A pony shouted causing a small stampede to run away from Mordekaiser.
“Pitiful…”
Mordekaiser turned his head and noticed the giant castle in the distance, without wanting to confuse it for a wealthy baron's house; he raised his arm to sense the power emanating from the castle. It was ancient, very powerful, and held lots of potential.
Mordekaiser chuckled.
As they continued walking down the path to the castle, Royal Guard pegasi swooped down with their spears and lances to prevent Mordekaiser and Sombra from advancing any further.
“Halt! You are to be taken into custody! You have caused a great disturbance in the city and—“
Mordekaiser was getting bored of listening to him and stifled a yawn; he grabbed the pony’s spear in one metallic grasp and snapped it. Before the Pegasus could do anything else, he was thrown at a high velocity to another Pegasus.
“I have no time for games, bring me to your Princess and I MAY choose to spare you,” Mordekaiser said with a hissing threat. The royal guards were nervous before, but they immediately went back to their fighting stances and aimed their weapons back at Mordekaiser.
“Shame… Your cries of agony will fuel me well, as well as your PAIN!”
Mordekaiser swung his mace to the heavens, mustering the momentum and force to shatter Equestria's soil. The force alone dented the earth, bringing a rush of air to those around him, as well as, scarred a horrid memory of the metallic beast's true power to all those pegasi dimwitted enough to resume their death sentence. He reached for his mace embedded in Equestria's soil, lifting it as few specks of crumbled dust fell away from his mace, filling the cracks left by his display of power. As the guards were dumbfounded by this beast’s strength, they were soon overcome by the resulting wind and debris that Mordekaiser’s impact had made and many were flung violently up and over in a spectacle of flying and falling Pegasi.
Mordekaiser chuckled to himself as he casually strolled past the groaning bodies around him trying to pick themselves up. From the corner of his glowing red eyes, he saw a Pegasus equine get up to his feet and ready to jump him. As the white armored Pegasus leaped towards him with his last bit of strength left, Mordekaiser grabbed him midflight with his metallic hand.
He held his victim from a hoof and went to eye level, his stench of death coming from the hole in his mask made the guard pony turn green.
“Oh, feeling a little sick?” Mordekaiser scoffed with vile laughter, “A doctor once told me to apply pressure to make the same feeling go away…” He leaned his helmet to the guard’s ear.
“…’applying pressure’ to the doctor with my mace by hitting him repeatedly definitely made me feel better.”
The guard Pegasus, now overcome with Mordekaiser’s grim stench of affliction had his eyes roll to the back of his head as he passed out. Before dropping the pony from his grasp to the ground, Mordekaiser snickered and turned back towards the direction of the castle.
Another guard pony tried to sneak up behind him, but Mordekaiser’s turning motion made the thick cape of his slap into the guard’s face at an intensity that most cape-slaps would surely not have. All this time, King Sombra (the recently deceased… again) had been watching how Mordekaiser dealt with his enemies. It was certainly amusing to say the least; it seems using fear and breaking ponies’ spirits was a common element between each other.
As Mordekaiser continued forward, Sombra turned around to see the legion of Royal Guard ponies right themselves up to launch another counteract. A sinister grin spread across the dark tyrant’s spectral mouth. In an instant, his body exploded into a chaotic wave of shadows and smoke, forming a horrifying illusion of what his tyrannical rage’s manifestation was: himself.
Big and terrifying as it was, and with the amount of smoke pouring from everywhere, Sombra’s trick was just that: a trick, a puny illusion he would have thrown at a birthday party or Nightmare Night. Needless to say, the trick worked and nearly every guard lost the armor they were wearing and ran as fast as possible in fear away from him.
Everypony that didn’t run away were either passed out, or suffering minor heart attacks.
Satisfied with his work, Sombra returned back to his normal form and went to his master, at least, not before noticing a pile of crystals growing through a nearby corner of the city walls.
“Grrr… good… crystals…”
He ate them, and they tasted delicious, much like shredded glass. A dead spectral tyrant needs to eat something, right?
Why did Mordekaiser turn on those ponies that wanted to help him all those hours ago? That’s right, the keywords: hours ago. Despite the amount of pain and suffering he was able to bring to this land of Equestria, it just didn’t feel the same. Everything here was too… nice.
And the last thing Mordekaiser wants is for this place to change him into a soft and cuddly lord of metal, who causes pain and suffering through friendship and hugs. That thought revolted him the most.
The second one involved if Hecarim was here… and what he might do… he rather not want to think that any further.
Sombra had finally caught up to Mordekaiser and they were just about the cross the lavish stone bridge across the moat of the castle when a voice from up above in a wooden guard tower shouted at them.
“HALT! None shall enter the castle without the consent of her Royal Highnesses!” a grey Pegasus guard stood there waving a hoof in a brutal fashion.
“NONE MAY ENTER, NONE!” a second grey Pegasus said in the guard tower as well.
Mordekaiser sighed, he didn’t want to tower dive, but it seems he has no choice.
“Here, hold my mace,” Mordekaiser said to Sombra as he dropped the heavy thirty-ton mace onto Sombra’s back. It fell right through him because he’s a ghost. Sombra gave him a 'no duh' shrug.
Mordekaiser calmly strolled over to the wooden tower, as soon as he was standing right next to it; he brought up his large metallic boot.
“I only need to kick once, FOOLS!”
He brought his boot through the wooden supports, snapping them as if they were mere twigs. His kick started to tip the guard tower in the opposite direction. The two ponies up in the tower screamed in terror as the shelter they were in plummeted into the soggy moat of Canterlot Castle.
Mordekaiser went back to pick up his mace, while giving Sombra an angry look because he didn’t carry his mace properly. The moment they stepped onto the bridge, a squad of royal ponies rushed to form a defensive line in front of them.
A captain stepped forward from the line and addressed Mordekaiser, “You have caused enough terror for today, vile creature! One more step and the best of the Royal Guard will be on you faster than you can lift your weapon! So, what is it going to b—”
The guard captain was cut off as Mordekaiser grabbed him by the throat; with a low laugh he glanced behind the captain to see the line of defense get hostile.
He pulled his arm back, and then when the words came out of his mouth, everypony, including Sombra went into shock.
“KNOCK KNOCK, CELESTIA!”
And he threw the captain with enough speed to get him to make a sonic rainboom, an explosion of colour erupted right through the line of defense as the captain’s ass was coloured with the six hues of exploding colour.
The front door to Canterlot Castle, never stood a chance.
Meanwhile, mere minutes before Mordekaiser had even stepped into the city of Canterlot, Twilight Sparkle and the rest of her friends had made it from their train ride to seek Princess Celestia and Princess Luna before everything would go downhill.
The six were escorted by a member of the royal guard to the throne room inside Canterlot Castle where they waiting eagerly yet patiently for Celestia and Luna to finish whatever business they had to do prior to seeing them.
“Don’t these ponies understand!? It’s an EMERGANCY!” Pinkie shouted while flailing her hoofs towards Twilight and her friends.
“We can’t rush the princesses, even if they’re possibly in danger… this is bad I wish they’re done with whatever they’re doing soon!” Twilight started to panic.
Just as soon as she finished that sentence the royal sisters stepped out from a room and trotted towards their direction.
They seemingly didn’t have a care in the world.
“We told you that we can crush you in one verses one, dear sister!” Princess Luna laughed in triumph.
“Well of course you would’ve won since I don’t play that game too often.”
“Then we request a rematch for a later day!”
“Of course dear sister,” Celestia smiled at her and turned her attention to the six ponies with nervous and uncomfortable expressions on their faces. “My little ponies, so good to see you all again, but your expressions say otherwise. Could you tell us what—”
Before she could even finish the six ponies burst out into a riot of frantic shouts.
“Well, you see there was this guy--” Rainbow Dash started.
Pinkie’s head interjected, “Like a really really big guy!”
“Covered in dreadful spiked armor—“ Rarity got in.
“SPIKES!” Pinkie shouted.
“An’ his name is Mordekaiser—“ Applejack tried to say.
“HE CARRIES A MACE; THEY BOTH START WITH THE LETTER M!”
“Pinkie, will you just shut--“ Twilight tried to yell her down but it was pointless for Pinkie intervened again.
“AND HE’S COMING HERE SO HE CAN KICK YOUR FLANKS AND FORCE YOU TO RETURN HIM TO HIS HOME WHERE HE WILL KICK EVEN MORE FLANKS!”
Suddenly everything went quiet, the five friends were bewildered, the guard ponies were in awe, and the royal sisters were shocked. Only Luna was able to say something aside to her sister.
“I don’t want my flank to get kicked,” she whispered.
“I don’t even know what’s going on, but let me try to piece everything together, sister,” Celestia quietly reassured her.
With her eyes back to the sheepish-looking ponies and the winded pink one recovering from hyperventilation, she tried to assemble what they all just said. “I’m not sure what’s happening, yet this is a great concern to us all. You are all telling me that there is this creature named… Mordekaiser?”
The ponies all nodded their heads. “And that he is well armed and armored, and he wants to—” Celestia cleared her throat, “’Kick our flanks’ so it can go home? You all must realize that’s almost no information for us to go on, do any of you know why it wants to do this?”
“Apparently, Mordekaiser really hates this world. He doesn’t belong here he said, and that he wanted to return home as soon as possible. We tried to make him wait but I have a feeling he got tired of us and he went on a rampage after…” Twilight tried to continue but couldn’t.
“After what?” Celestia’s gaze hardened causing the purple unicorn to cry out quietly under her breath.
“After… we told him you might be able to help him get back to his home.”
Silence engulfed the throne room, Celestia and Luna looked at each other before turning their heads back to the bewildered ponies. They burst into laughter.
“REALLY TWILIGHT SPARKLE!? That’s the most hilarious thing I ever heard!” Celestia laughed, “Of course we can send him back! I’m sure all of this is just a simple misunderstanding. If this, Mordekaiser is running around in a suit of armor carrying a mace I’m sure we can pacify him from a safe distance away and send him back to his own world! Oh Twilight Sparkle, you and your friends give us the most fascinating stories!”
“Bu-but… Celestia. He’s really powerful, it’s unlike anything anypony has ever seen! He uses other’s pain as his secret weapon!”
They weren’t listening to her and continued to laugh, even Princess Luna of the Night fell onto her back trying to suppress the unavoidable laughter which they couldn’t control. Twilight and her friends were absolutely horrified; they never imagined their Princesses, their Equestrian rulers and protectors, would treat this issue as some sort of joke.
As much as Twilight would have loved to stand up for herself and shout at those two to act their age, she couldn’t. It would be stepping out of line and she doesn’t think shouting at them would be enough anyways. She needed something big, something like a crashing miracle.
In a split second after she made that thought, a royal captain crashed through a nearby window.
“AAAAAAAHHH!” he shouted at blistering speeds as he flew high above everypony, catching the princesses’ attention before finally crashing his head through a wall. His body hangs there; a trail of rainbows continues to flow out from behind him.
“Was… was that a Sonic Rainboom?” Rainbow Dash said with a confused expression witnessing the captain trying to pull his head out from the wall with his hooves but failed.
“Ow… my butt,” he mumbled through the wall before falling unconscious, the rainbow colours now leaking out at a steady stream from his flank.
Now realizing the gravity of their situation the Princesses tightened up and got back to their old diplomatic selves. Celestia looked towards the pony and shouted, “What is the meaning of this!?”
Twilight got a closer look to the pony and turned her head back to the group, with a gulp she said, “Th-this captain… isn’t even a Pegasus.”
All their mouths went agape, it was almost impossible to get a sonic rainboom from a non-pegasus pony. Almost.
Twilight suddenly realized who might have the strength to give that Royal Captain a trail of rainbows.
“Oh, Bu—“
This time a royal guard crashed through a window, and everypony could hear a menacing laugh echoing through the halls of the castle.
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“HUE HUE HUE! I did not realize just how fun it was to dive an enemy base! This takes me back to my days as a general razing the lands and demoralizing any who opposed me!” he laughed some more reveling in his handiwork of chucking more guard ponies out of his way, the one that landed through the window at the end of the entrance hallway was his favourite so far.
The spectral apparition of Sombra had enshrouded some guards in his smoky mist to render them unconscious. He turned his head towards Mordekaiser; even though he was enslaved to his master he did find Mordekaiser’s enjoyment of causing pain and suffering to be a substantial bonus. In fact, he reveled in it.
Once the entrance had been cleared of guards either by throwing them, slamming them with a giant mace, or just downright scaring those into unconsciousness, Mordekaiser aimed his arm towards the source of energy down the long hallway, he could feel the pounding of magic potential against the other side of the double doors.
“Go my Spectral Equine, tear down that WALL!”
Then again, Sombra realized why he hated being this buffoon’s slave. How is he even going to tear a wall down if he couldn’t even hold onto Mordekaiser’s mace? The curse of being a spirit is that he can’t interact with any physical objects, minus those guard ponies he made unconscious but that was just his own ‘dark tyrant of ghostly terror haunting’ technically he’s lost all his physical power. So it makes sense immediately after being given that order he made a snarl towards his master.
“What is it?” Mordekaiser replied with his arms crossed. “Are you disobeying me!?”
Sombra didn’t shake his head instead he went, “Grrr…”
“What?”
“Grraa… grrr… rah…”
“I don’t understand, I mean I know how to speak to the souls of the undead but all you’re trying to say is profound gibberish wrapped in a heavy accent. Fool, what is it you are trying to say! SPEAK CLEARLY!” his voice boomed.
The king quietly floated down the hallway towards a side door and pointed towards it with his ethereal forehoof, hoping that this metallic blockhead would get his hint. When Mordekaiser gave his a quizzical tilt of his head, Sombra facehoofed and was forced to make words.
“Ggrra… grrr… gank…”
Mordekaiser tried to sound out what his ghost slave just said, “A… gank? That's what you're blabbering on about? Hmmm…” he clanked his armored hands together into a form of a clap. “WONDERFUL! I knew that I was forgetting something essential! Those ponies will never know what hit them...” His gaze went over to Sombra’s, “You are somewhat better than my previous slaves… and surprisingly past my ultimate’s cool down. Hmmm… intriguing.”
Before Sombra could even snarl a remark he thought about it and determined that was probably going to be the only compliment his master would say to him. He’ll just take it and ignore everything else that’s an underlying insult. Mordekaiser made it to the door and lifted his incredibly weighty boot to kick right through it.
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Meanwhile back at the throne room, Twilight was panicking like a mad filly amongst her friends while Celestia and Luna were trying to figure what was going on. The sounds they’ve heard beyond the door were brutal, but they couldn’t falter. They still had to instill some form of order to prevent anypony from panicking.
Except for Twilight.
Applejack was one who had the guts to swallow and ask, “Princess, should we do something?”
Celestia craned her neck and looked at the group of nervous ponies; Fluttershy’s hoof was running up and down Twilight’s mane trying to calm her. “I don’t believe we would be able to gather the Elements of Harmony in time. There’s nothing else we can do other than prepare for what’s to come.”
“Hey! I am not leaving any innocent guard ponies to get handled and thrown around by that creep!” Rainbow Dash shouted.
“And I say, if we charge into battle unprepared then that same fate shall befall us!” Princess Luna sounded back to her resulting Rainbow to huff in annoyance. “My sister’s right. We’re dealing with an unknown foe. Who knows what other tricks it might have in its metallic sleeves other than what—” Celestia looked at Twilight’s panicked state and she could only clear her throat, “-- Ahem, Twilight has told us.”
“So what should we do? Barricade the doors?” Pinkie suggested.
“I really don’t know if that would hel—”
“BARRICADE THE DOORS!” Pinkie shouted in terror, as the pink blur of her outline dashed across the room shoving as much furniture as she could find to block the doorway.
“At least she’s dedicated,” Luna giggled.
Suddenly, a lingering thought in Celestia’s mind had arisen, “Oh my goodness…”
“What is it about your goodness, sister?” Luna asked. She realized the awkwardness of how she said that and a small blush came across her face and the faces of the other ponies. “I—I uh, we mean that…”
“It’s alright dear sister. I just remembered that our Discord was meeting with an emissary to talk about diplomatic relations. It's strange... I never heard about a place called, 'The Void.' I just hope he knows what he's doing.”
At that name, Twilight jumped to her hooves, all her past terry now gone only to have been replaced with confusion. “Discord’s a diplomat!?”
“Apparently, he is. And his friend seems to have a voracious appetite, I must’ve seen… around about twenty plates of tea and hors d'oeuvres.”
“My, that sounds like a feast!” Rarity said in awe.
“Indeed. I just hope that our intruder won’t kick down their door and barge in unannounced.”
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Mordekaiser kicked down a door and barged in unannounced.
He was greeted by two figures sitting in red comfortable chairs, drinking cups of tea in front of a crisping fireplace while the walls of the room are lined by books. It might have just been a simple library for Mordekaiser, but the two figures added a certain air to it. A certain… gentleman aspect.
“I do say! Seems we have an uninvited guest!” said the figure in the left chair, a twisted creature made from parts of other twisted creatures. It was a chimera, and it was wearing a light-blue suit with a top hat. Its talon hand reached for the tea cup on its plate and gingerly took a sip.
“It seems we do, my friend Discord!” the figure said to the chimera from the right chair. A frightening sight of horror to say the least: its reddened body complexion was adorned with a dapper black and white suit, top hat, and a monocle.
Dinosaur-like feet, a pair of claw pincers on its back in the shape of scythes, wasn’t the most frightening of his features. There were horns on the sides of his head angled towards his maw full of sharpened raw teeth; pincers replacing arms, he holds his tea towards the metal intruder and his green eyes begin to glow as a vile laugh escapes from him.
Mordekaiser knew who he was and he was sure that creature knew him as well. He tightened his grip on his mace. How another champion of the league could have gotten here, he didn’t know. At least he knows what he’s going to do about it.
“Perhaps it’s another servant ready to refill your platter? You do happen to have a voracious appetite my dear Cho’gath. I recall that you've eaten 6 stacks of food as if it were nothing!” Discord said to the large terror with a laugh.
Who are you calling a servant… Mordekaiser thought grimly, his grip would have crushed stone.
“Ah, yes. Though now that I happen to adjust my monocle, I can see that…” This time the horrible creature of a thousand nightmares began to choke on his tea. He realized who the metal figure was at last.
And he was unquestionably scared.
With a roar, Mordekaiser charged against the gentlemanly-champion and toppled him from his chair as he began to wail his mace on Cho’gath. Grunts and shouts erupted from both of them as Mordekaiser brought down his mace in a sickening crunch. He lifted his arm to do it again and a pincer shot out to hold the mace against his grasp.
“I ought to bite your legs off!”
A red maw bit onto Mordekaiser’s mace arm; Cho’gath didn’t even care that the sharp metal he was biting on was ripping through his mouth like a sharp blade. He wasn’t able to bite through and was even more unable to let go of his vice-like grip.
“Let go of my arm so I can smash you into the ground, terror of the void!” Mordekaiser said to him. Seeing that Cho’gath wasn’t going to let go anytime soon, he took his other iron-metallic arm and rapidly punched the side of the beast’s head. “I don’t care if you are wearing a dress suit. Formality will not protect you!”
A small loss in concentration was all he needed to bring his mace up from the creature’s teeth and smash it into its monocle.
“I WILL EAT YOU!” It shouted and began to gnaw on Mordekaiser’s arm. “Omnomnomnomnom!”
“TOO MUCH IRON MIGHT BE PAINFUL FOR YOUR SYSTEM!” he retorted back.
And they continued their struggle on the ground, repeatedly landing blows on one other.
During this scene of violent terror, Sombra floated up next to Discord who was still sipping his tea and enjoying the show in front of him.
“Sombra, my old friend! How glad of you to join us! I haven’t seen you in years, where have you been all this time?”
He took a sip from his cup, “I know what it feels like to be stuck inside something for more than a thousand years. It’s a really big pain in the neck from what I remember. At least I got out fine and--” he looked over to Sombra who was giving him a scowl that could scar a small child for life. “—you look a little… dead, by the way.”
“Grrr..rrrr…” Sombra points his spectral hoof towards the metal giant still smashing his mace.
“Ah, I see. Well, I certainly must say this is quite entertaining. Tea?”
Sombra wasn’t able to accept the tea. Discord kept holding the cup out in front of him with an inquisitive eye. He gave a blank look towards Discord before giving himself a ghostly facehoof.
“Suit yourself.”
It would be another five minutes of struggling fighting before the fight would be over. In the meantime, the two chatted away about their lives (as much as a dead king and a gentlemanly draconequus could), and quietly watched the one versus once.
It was quite pointless, yet entertaining nonetheless.
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The large double doors of the throne room were a staggering 30 feet high and now it was completely covered by every single table, chair, lamp, and every other piece of furniture Pinkie could find. She was exhausted and with a squeak she fell to the ground, exhausted beyond belief.
“All… done…”
“Thank you Pinkie Pie,” Celestia said.
Something about seeing the over-barricaded door brought a sense of serenity among the small ponies.
Twilight sighed, having calmed herself, “Great, we’re safe for now and we can now come up with a plan—“
A loud crash came from the other side of a wall. The ponies intensified and many feelings in their guts dropped to their lowest points out of fear. This time they could hear a loud scuffle of voices on the other side. A moment later, the wall exploded as a giant red beast flung into the air, it sailed over their heads with a terrible yell from its great maw.
The Cho’gath sailed across the room and crashed through a window of Canterlot Castle to the outside, screaming in dread as it descended to the ground. That side of the castle was where the cliff separating Canterlot and the mountain it stood on. The screams eventually died out within the gusting wind.
Many of the small pastel-coloured ponies nearly fainted from such a sight of horror; the beast was gigantic and could have easily made anything in Equestria have a wet accident from the sheer size of its jaws. However, they weren’t scared because of how terrifying the creature was…
…but because they knew who might have the strength to throw him.
The dust cleared, and finally Celestia and Luna could see what Mordekaiser looked like. Indeed, the metal suit of armor stood there menacingly. Not only that, what stood next to him appeared to be some ghostly version of Sombra.
The other ponies were in shock after seeing Sombra. Twilight and Fluttershy in particular for having seen Mordekaiser’s past ghost servant of the Alpha Timberwolf from before. The fact that he could ensnare and command the Dark Tyrant’s ancient soul showed just how willing he was to see the princess at any cost.
The iron giant clad in sharp metallic armor took a few steps forward from the rubble, resting his mace casually on his shoulder. From his left hand he held a monocle. An open metallic palm turned slowly into a fist as it was gradually and easily crushed into mere pieces and glass dust.
The pieces drop from his hand and onto the floor; the sound echoed across the room. The dust did not remain on his hand casting a shining gleam of cuttingly refined metal. Finally allowed to speak and be heard by all without any more distractions, his voice broke through the deafening silence.
“What a fitting beginning to finally meet you at last… Celestia.”
The room was silent, the ponies looking at the two horrific figures tensed. The suit of armor casually takes a few steps ahead from where he had torn a giant hole in the wall towards the ponies. He approaches the six small figures he had met before, along with a regal white pegasus-unicorn… unicorn-pegasus… pegacorn… well whatever the right name for it was, she was seemingly much larger in comparison to the other ponies and her mane flowed with a rainbow-hued translucence.
It wasn’t just her; there was another pony that was right next to the window the flying Cho’gath had left the palace from. Just like the giant white Pegasus-unicorn crossbreed, this one was midnight blue with a same coloured mane flowing with twinkling stars across a midnight sky.
Yes, he was finding more and more reasons why he doesn’t belong here.
All the ponies shifted curiously and in terror as he approached. Yet, it was Rainbow Dash who made the iron giant stop in his tracks.
“What gives you the right to break in here, and ruin everypony’s lives?!” she spat out in hate.
Suddenly he halts as he made it to the centre of the room.
“What gives you the right to speak, mortal!” Mordekaiser’s voice boomed. It was so loud that Fluttershy and a few others had to cover their ears. “Besides…” he said looking over to Celestia. She gave him an infuriated scowl. “… It’s proper manners to greet the pony that WILL make sure nothing else terrible happens within her kingdom, wouldn’t you say so, princess?”
Just by how smugly Mordekaiser had phrased that left a bad taste in Celestia’s mouth, mainly one of iron... strange. Mordekaiser straightened up and looked her in the eyes.
“Hello Celestia, it seems we weren’t properly introduced. I am Lord Mordekaiser, harbinger of affliction and commander of pain. And you—“ he said lifting his left arm towards her, “—will bend to me.” His fingers curled into a fist with a menacing metal screech.
“I am not going to be the one bending over, Mordekaiser!” Celestia shouted back with confidence.
Without any eyebrows etched in his helmet, it was Sombra who had to make a look of surprise.
“You might have barged your way in here, but that will be your own undoing! What was this all for? Just to get a way back home? And from what I’ve heard, you’ve caused a massive scale of destruction just trying to reach here! You might be strong enough to steal souls back from the dead, and yet you will never be strong enough to learn anything more than living with pain and sickness!”
“That’s true!” Twilight shouted at him. “If you just stayed for a few hours at Fluttershy’s then none of this would’ve happened! You would be home right now if you didn’t act like a bully!”
“Ya, you big meanie-pants!” Pinkie yelled at him with anger.
“With friendship, anything was possible yet you had to go and ruin it!” Fluttershy cried out to him, having been the only pony Mordekaiser had legitimately ‘helped’ from his good side.
Satisfied with what they’ve said, they awaited to how Mordekaiser would respond to them.
“Your world is… pathetic.”
Everyone was taken aback and shocked by what he just said, even Celestia.
“You would know nothing of unexpectedly arriving in a world distorted by convoluted beliefs and colours. Ponies running around and rainbows drawn in the sky like it was some kind of children’s cartoon! There was no reason for me staying here and minute-by-minute my sanity of this place kept dropping. I had to take matters into my own hands. I was not about to let a chance of leaving this place fall from my grasp!”
“NOTHING WILL STAND IN MY WAY OF LEAVING THIS VILE PLACE!”
His gaze went over to the purple-mane alabaster unicorn, “And as I’ve promised to THAT one. Should my demands or goals be obstructed from me, then I will gladly turn this place into my own world of desolation. In other words, your world SICKENS me beyond my own AFFLICTION!”
Celestia stomped her hoof in irritation, she could tell this would only escalate to something worse, “I WILL NOT TOLERATE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE OR WILL DO, MORDEKAISER! But so help me, that if you hurt ONE hair on my subjects, you will wish you were DEAD when I’m through with you!”
“Too late for that,” he chuckled turning to the midnight-blue pony who wasn’t taken back by his announcement of being undead. “Ah, and who is this? Don’t tell me, another pony princess?” he laughed under his breath.
Luna, now seething with rage was unable to contain her anger, her voice broke out in an echoing typhoon of sound.
“HOW DARE YOU DECIDE THAT OUR WORLD IS PATHETIC! We have you know that as the Princess of the Night we will not succumb to your insults, beast!”
Mordekaiser was unavailable to say anything; he was too much in shock by that voice. That voice… it can’t be. It’s… too familiar, no...
“GOOD JOB!”
“MINIONS HAVE SPAWNED!"
"STAY BEHIND YOUR MINIONS!”
“PENTAKILL!
ACE!”
No no no no, this world can’t be tricking me. What mockery is this?! Mordekaiser shouted in his head. He snapped back to reality to see all the ponies in front of him looked confused.
“You! A question.” He pointed his menacing arm towards Princess Luna. “What would you say to someone if they walked through a castle, destroyed all the defenses and guards, crushed everyone’s moral by throwing a beast larger than yourself through a wall and backed the final defenders of the base into a rather large throne room?”
Luna’s eye twitched, “ART THOU MOCKING US!? YOU PETULENT WHELP! DO YOU THINK WE WON’T FIGHT!? THAT WE WON’T SUCCEED?” she kept shouting as she made a step closer to Mordekaiser with every retort she made.
“YOU WILL FACE OUR WRATH FOR WHAT THEE HAS DONE TODAY! ALL OF THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED, BUT WE WILL NOT SEND YOU BACK TO THINE WORLD! IF YOU ACT THERE LIKE HOW YOU ACT HERE, THEN IT WILL BE BETTER TO BANISH YOU FOR ALL ETERNITY! WE WILL MAKE YOUR ENDLESS PAIN, EVEN MORE ENDLESS!"
“SO WHAT WE HAVE TO SAY TO YOU IS, GOOD JOB!”
“… that’s all I wanted to hear,” Mordekaiser’s voice went into a sly pitch.
Suddenly, he grabs the Princess of the Night with his arms and with a loud yell he chucks her across the air.
“LUNA!” everypony shouted.
She went right through the window where Mordekaiser had originally thrown the Cho’gath. She flipped right-side up with the help of her wings and floated easily among the wind.
“HA! Huzzah! I can fly you, foal! Is that the best that you can do?”
Mordekaiser intimidatingly made his way over to the window, he shouted, “Will those be your final words, announcer!?”
Luna was confused by what he meant. She raised an eyebrow, trying to comprehend what he’s talking about.
“Don’t play dumb, equine! You host the League of Legends, always encouraging players when they take a minion camp or successfully clicked more than once in a tutorial! That creature I thrown out the same window was a champion like and unlike myself! As much as it pains me to see how annoying it is, you have a job to do and I have my own to attend to.”
“What is a League of Legends?” she asked, unsure of what else to say.
“Uninstall your game, please,” Mordekaiser poked her in the face with his mace quickly as she was distracted by pure confusion.
She let out an adorable squeak; “Ouch!” she clasped her hooves and wings on her nose. She didn’t realize that made her stop flying, and she immediately fell with a shocked scream.
Satisfied with what he had done, Mordekaiser turned his attention back to the cluster of ponies who had assumed a defensive position around the princess. The spectral Sombra slithered its way in a cloud of dark smoke to the side of his master.
“So you will not send me back to my home? My match which is in progress? I could be reported for being afk, a nuisance… but one that can be rectified should you comply with my most generous of simple offers,” he asked Celestia, the sneering underline of his voice made her skin crawl.
“Never! As Luna said, we cannot allow you to do any more harm on any living creature in any world or dimension! The only way back home for you will be over my dead body!” she gritted her teeth.
“That can be arranged.”
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The six small ponies lined up in a defensive stance in front of their princess, overshadowing them with her divine presence and protection. Mordekaiser swung his mace jestingly, cutting through the air with ease despite the heaviness from his weapon. All was quiet once everyone assumed their battle stances asides from a few ghastly snarls from Sombra. A gust from the broken window drafted through the room, chilling the air and making Mordekaiser’s cape flow from the breeze.
“You may have the first move, Celestia. After all… this is your base and so far I have failed to see any worthwhile resistance at all,” Mordekaiser’s words sparked more rage within the ponies.
“You might be surprised then,” Celestia herself chuckled under her breath.
He points to the six ponies surrounding the princess, “Don’t keep your minions waiting. After all I still have much left to farm in this castle.”
“Farm? What do you mean: agriculture?” Twilight asked him with a hoof on her chin.
“GOLD, YOU FOOLS!”
Pinkie quietly whispered to everyone, “He’s totally bonkers! Next he’ll be telling us there’s a pirate running around eating oranges all day!”
“Don’t worry Mordekaiser, you will soon see the power that has made Equestria stronger than any dark force that may attempt to ruin its balance of harmony!” Celestia shouted at him with a royal smirk. The ponies turned to her in confusion and noticed that she had levitated a small box towards them. It was a box familiar to them they had seen plenty of times in the past.
“Princess, we’re going to use them? The Elements?” Twilight asked. All went into awe when the box opened revealing six ancient artifacts, five of which were necklaces and the sixth was a crown.
“Yes. You must all harness the Elements of Harmony and their power in order to defeat Mordekaiser. I realize now that me and Luna were fools to thing this creature was nothing more than a nuisance or a troubled being. Now we can all see that it is much more sinister.”
“P-Perhaps…” Fluttershy this time tried to speak, but was trying hard to clear her dry throat. “M-maybe… the Elements can change him… like what happened to Discord.”
Their mouths hung open but Fluttershy still continued. “He must have been alive a time ago, a long time ago. Maybe he’s doing all of this, all of this pain… maybe he’s just trying to show us how he’s been suffering himself. Maybe that’s why no pony… or b-body in his case… would go out to reach for him and h-help.”
“His last connection to life must be through pain, and maybe that’s why he’s so angry.”
Fluttershy’s words have merit, and they made sense, the ponies were silent when they thought about the predicament from Mordekaiser’s point of view. A creature and manipulator of pain must have been affected by pain itself. But they couldn’t give sympathy, not at a time like this.
Fluttershy remembered just how he had saved her from certain death when he could have easily left her. Deep down, behind all those layers of armor, she felt kindness, compassion. She hopes that with the Elements… then maybe Mordekaiser would see that.
With everyone now wearing their respective element, they all turned back towards Mordekaiser who was standing there impatiently. Perhaps beating these ponies and in particular the Princess, will get him closer to his goal, as well as having some better entertainment.
“I tire of waiting. Or should I initiate first since you can’t seem to decide to do anything?” he scoffed.
The six ponies looked at each other and nodded their heads. In a flash of blinding light, they were lifted into the air, the powers of their elements hummed with energy. Suddenly, an explosion of rainbows erupted from the stored power and aimed directly at Mordekaiser.
Yes, a high-powered bright colourful rainbow that seems to be in the form of some kind of ‘laser’. There was much more rainbow color associated to it, but there was no denying the similarities it shared…
Mordekaiser quietly chuckled under his breath as the rainbow hit him square in the chest.
Parts of the rainbow reflected from his armor, but the damage was centering on his abdomen. His iron-clad boots dug into the ground as he was slowly being pushed backwards against its strength. His strength gave way and he fell to one of his knees trying to become an iron way for the blast. A few seconds later and the rainbow laser died out. Leaving a smoldering field of smoke to where Mordekaiser was supposedly behind.
“That was certainly a frightful experience, but there wouldn’t be any possible way a brute like him would be able to shrug that off!” She turned her heads towards her friends who were too focused on the cloud of rising smoke. Rarity asked. “Did we… did we win?”
As the smoke dissipated, a figure kneeled on the ground huffing in exhaustion. A burn mark was scorched upon its armor. The ponies were astonished when the metallic lord got up from its knee and stood up straight. A vile laughter, accompanied by a series of hues left them all in shambles. He takes out his hand and looks at it.
“Irony…” He brushes his hand over the scorch mark; it turns out to be nothing but simple dust and ash leaving behind a brilliant shine of metal from where the rainbow hit. “You have no idea… just how ironic this is.”
Everypony was stumbled on words. “How… HOW! Why didn’t the elements do anything to you?” Celestia questioned him with a blinding confusion.
“You see my little ponies… Back in my world, and coincidently a short while before I landed in yours, there was this one champion who had done that exact same rainbow ultimate against me. Let’s just say… she didn’t live long after that.” He laughed under his breath, causing all the ponies to cringe.
“Y-You monster!” Twilight shouted at him in rage.
“Ah but what’s done is done… I believe you have made your first move…”
He looks at all of them silently for a second.
“Now, I will make mine.”
“HRAAAH!”
Without warning, Mordekaiser threw out his left arm to send a shower of blistering shrapnel towards the group of ponies. Instantly, Celestia brought up a bright-yellow translucent shield which absorbed the impact of the sharp metal harmlessly to make them bounce off and dissipate.
“Really? Is that the best you can—”
Celestia was interrupted to see that Mordekaiser was upon them in an instant with his mace towering above their shield.
His attack was only a ruse to get her distracted from his true intentions of coming into close-quarters. The mace came down on an instant and slammed into the magical shield, shattering it into glowing fragmented pieces. This caused Celestia to fall back away from the rest of the ponies from the force of the impact on her shield. Her horn hurt from the burst of force, and was staggered. This time Mordekaiser shot out his affliction towards her horn, the pale-grey glow of death covered onto her horn giving her a massive migraine.
“GO, SOMBRA! LET THESE EQUINES TASTE THE WRATH YOU’VE HELD ONTO SO LONG!” Mordekaiser shouted defiantly. His spectral servant growled in satisfaction as his body floated in between the ponies and the metallic giant.
“DAAAAARKNESSSSS!” Plumes of smoke and ash erupted from Sombra’s body, covering the entire room in a heavy and thick dark mist, and pushing the six ponies away from each other from the rough might of air.
“I… I can’t see anything!” Rainbow Dash shouted into the black mist.
“Don’t worry everypony! There’s no need to get paranoid! We’re all okie-dokie here!” Pinkie’s voice sounded through the fog, though slightly muffled.
No pony could see anything other than their own hoof in front of their face and it would be an understatement to say that they were just a little bit nervous of what may lurk in the shadows.
“Princess! Can you hear me!?” Twilight shouted, a few seconds later and she figured out that Celestia wouldn’t have been able to hear that. Not to mention the massive headache she must’ve got from having maintained that shield when that mace slammed into it. She has to find the rest of her friends before Mordekaiser does. No wards and no vision, it looks like they were on their own until then.
Paranoia was literal, just like how Mordekaiser was metal.
Darkness shadowed grimly over the throne room, its smoke and ash clouds left out any sunlight from the outdoors turning mere shadows into areas of pitch-black fog. And somewhere within the smoke were six separated ponies, a metal terror, and an over one-thousand year old angry spirit somewhere flying about. Celestia however was stumbling out to the edges of the smoke clouds where they made in contact with the walls. Her head was hurting from the intensity of the migraine she had obtained from Mordekaiser. Through the mixed convulsions going on inside her head, she couldn’t help but give that brute some credit for his tactics.
Trying to open her eyes from the pain wasn’t an easy task with all the pain. She slumped her back down against a wall. What she could really use was some breathing room from all the fog to get her mind thinking again. Her horn lights up fighting against the surging amount of headache pain the regal princess endured, and tries to cast a simple repel spell against the fog. It only nudged out for a few metres before receding back to its previous state.
“Of course, Sombra uses dark magic. That means I would have to put more focus into my spells…” she winces in pain as she rests a hoof on her horn. “No chance of that happening right now.” She figures out through all the blistering pains in her head that she’s able to repel the fog just a bit, yet it would always recede.
Celestia placed her horn up against the wall and channeled her magic into the throne room. Her same repel magic spread across the room seamlessly condensing the fog towards the centre of the room. She slid even further down her back against the wall in exhaustion.
“I hope Twilight and her friends will make it out of the fog and seek safety against the walls, the spell should hold for a few more minutes.”
She opened her eyes to see a bright cascade of light shining from her sun and into the room.
“AAAARRGH!” she grabbed her horn with both hooves from the massive burst of pain from the oversensitivity of light for her migraine. She toppled over and fell to the floor in agony, cursing one name.
“Mordekaiser, you jerk… you have an ironic sense of humor.”
It wasn’t every day that the Princess of the Sun would be suffering so much pain from looking at her sun rays. It was true enough to say that no matter how overpowered anything was, a migraine would always be stronger than that.
And so would be any irony associated with it.
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While Celestia was busy tending to her horn outside the fog, Mordekaiser was casually walking around looking for any potential victims. He had to admit, that spectral equine did a great job turning the room into one giant fog of war. Perhaps too much of a great job…
“I CAN’T SEE A DAMN THING!”
Now would’ve been a good time for something like a vision ward, but of course…
“I’M NOT THE DAMN SUPPORT! I blame YOU King Sombra!” he shouted into the swirling dark fog.
He shrugged realizing his shouting would be pointless, for all he knows his servant would be flying around trying to find some equines for him to fight and demoralize. If he couldn’t find them, then they would find him, and if that doesn’t work then he’ll order Sombra to go find them so that way, he or they could find themselves.
“Foolproof.”
Suddenly, Mordekaiser felt a tingle in his chest. He reached out his arm to scratch it; it was right where that ‘friendship rainbow’ made by the six ponies had hit him.
“I feel… ticklish.”
Soon the feeling passed with a more-than confused Mordekaiser, he was certain it had happened but it went away after a few seconds leaving nothing but his usual metallic demeanor of pain.
“This place is driving me more insane by the minute.”
With a revamped drive, he set forth through the fog of war to locate the ponies. Maybe he will use them as hostages, maybe he’ll go on a killing-spree there were six of them after all. He was always curious to know what would happen if he got a kill immediately after a penta. Though this world is strange in its designs to mock and torment him. There would be no knowing what would happen should he score that extra kill.
Just then he remembered something, something rather important.
There was no doubt that Mordekaiser was once a powerful general, but he was also a tactile one. If he was right about his assumption playing on his head, then maybe…
“Oh ho… yes.” He couldn’t help but let out a loud laugh that pierced through the dense membranes of the fog. Should he somehow fail in obtaining that sixth kill for whatever reason, he knows how to get it either way.
It was inevitable, and there is nothing that Celestia or these ponies could do to stop it.
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“HUE HUE hue hue….”
Applejack turned her ears to the direction of that vicious laughter with a nervous impulse chilling down her spine. She yelped when she felt something slither past her back hooves. She craned her neck to see nothing but dark fog before her.
“Ah… Ah’m not afraid of you Mordekaiser!” She burst out. Then the familiar nervousness worked its way back into her, “… o-or Sombra for that matter.”
She gulped and took a few steps forward only to feel an ominous gust slide past her; this was too much for her to take. She sprinted as fast as she could away from that gust in the opposite direction. Her redirection sent her bursting through gasps and exasperated breaths trying to get away from whatever that thing was.
The fog was so deep that she barely had any time to react before colliding with a frantic rainbow Pegasus.
“Rainbow! Oh am I so glad to see you!” Applejack said in relief as she tried to unscramble herself from her friend.
“Applejack!” Rainbow beamed and gave her a hug before flying back up a few feet in the air. “Did you see what happened? Sombra just jumped in and exploded!” She looked to see Applejack giving her a dry expression. “Right, aha… So I can’t seem to blast way any of this fog with my Pegasus abilities, which sucks! And I tried flying up to the ceiling, but it seems it reached all the way up too!”
“Argh! This blows!” Rainbow crossed her hooves.
Just then a gust of wind blew across them, and when they turned their heads to its direction, any hope they had left of rejoining everypony else was shattered.
A pair of glowing red eyes pierced through the fog. The ground vibrated when the metallic figure hiding in the shadows took a scarce amount of steps towards them just enough to reveal the sharp gleam of his suit.
“Ah, so I see what Sombra’s game was… More clever than your average spirit.” He looked down upon the two ponies. “But an equine nonetheless.”
“YOU!” Applejack shouted in anger.
“Hmmm?” Mordekaiser raised an eye.
“Ah knew, you were trouble the moment ah saw your thick metal hide! You think y’all can just do what you want ‘cause you’re a crazy psycho lord?” Applejack went up closer to him, right until she could feel the chill of metal wafting off his boots. “I’ll tell you what! You’re lord of NOTHING to me! Ah don’t like ya and now you’ll get a good kick of mah hooves!”
Immediately to Rainbow’s horror, Applejack slammed a hoof into Mordekaiser’s armor. It didn’t do anything other than send a ringing of clanking metal through the air. Unsatisfied with her kick, Applejack continued to barrage Mordekaiser’s leg with repeated follow-up kicks.
“Honesty. That is certainly a noble trait.”
His arm reached down and grabbed an orange hoof before she could cause anything more than a dent. He lifted her high into the air upside down and locked eyes with her emerald ones.
“It is also quite unwise. How many secrets have your allies been keeping from you? Or, I could say the opposite for you.”
His eyes furrowed into her soul. “It’s like when a creature says to me they won’t tell me what I need to know. Enslaving them as my spirit seems to be a reputable solution.” His voice leered towards the upside down cowpony. “Fortunately for you, I could care less about Equestria’s secrets. Just like I could care less about having you voice your opinions about me.”
He brought his face closer towards hers; the stench of his death was sickly intoxicating, she tried to hoof him once more but missed.
“Hue.”
With that he threw her through the fog, Applejack shouted all the way from the velocity of the throw. She sailed out of the fog and slammed hard into a wall.
Satisfied with his first technically un-official Equestrian kill, he turned his attention back to the crayon-maned pony.
“You… You… A-APPLEJACK! I WON’T LET YOU HURT ANY MORE OF MY FRIENDS!” with tears in her eyes she flew far ahead passed him in a blinding cyan blur.
“Loyalty. From my experiences, the weak always follow the strong. Why protect those weaker than you when you can easily crush them? Ahh… but what happens when there is more than one who is strong. It will, and always become a slaughter, a series of back-stabbings and uprisings. Allies or not, it will always end with pain and torment to decide a victor of the highest calibre.”
A flash of rainbow caught his eye along with a booming sound a single second later. Having anticipated and learned Rainbow’s speed from the train ride, he turned his body sideways, just as a rainbow blur tried to slam into him from the shadows. The cyan Pegasus was mere inches from Mordekaiser’s metallic spiked chest plate. Rainbow Dash was shocked at Mordekaiser’s simple turn to doged her attack. It had caught her off guard.
Unable to control her speed from the small sonic rainboom, she sailed out from the foggy mess and slammed into the wall next to Applejack before landing on top of her in pain and discomfort.
“You are so blinded by the ‘loyalty’ of protecting your friends and princess; you can’t even hit the obstacle that’s going to crush them.”
His cape swung back around him as he made his journey deeper into the fog, leaving the two ponies in near-unconscious agony.
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He took a few more steps through the dark fog; his spectral servant’s plan of luring the wretched ponies to him was beyond satisfactory. He could feel the lasting pain from his curse upon Celestia’s horn weaken every second. But at this rate, he’ll have crushed enough morale to get Celestia to comply with his demands.
He could just easily find her, take her soul and be done with it. But there are… complications.
Not only will I be stuck with an equine, there would be two of them! And this one has past his expiration date! I cannot allow yet another glitch in the death cycle. It would just be painful…
This time he heard an ear-piercing shriek. He rushed towards the source of the sound to see King Sombra hovering above an alabaster-furred unicorn with a regal purple mane.
“You! You got all this ash on my fur! Don’t you tyrants know it will take WEEKS to wash off!?” she said with an ever-growing desire to want to erase the spectral pony from existence for ruining her fur.
Sombra turned to look at Mordekaiser approaching, he grinned before slithering off in a cloud of shadow. As soon as Rarity noticed why he had left so abruptly from her ranting it was already too late. A large metallic shadow loomed over her, its eyes seething with merciless spite.
“White unicorn, we finally have a chance to talk in individual company, considering all I’ve heard from you so far were complaints on either my servant or me,” he rested his mace horizontally together with both hands. “I don’t rather enjoy long conversations, by the way.”
Anger and heartache for her friends and fur taking over her body, she was unable to sustain herself with all the destructive emotions she felt for this metallic jerk.
“I can’t BELIEVE YOU!” she started by shouting at him. “You came to Equestria not knowing where you were, we went to help you, and tried to arrange the meeting with Princess Celestia! Fluttershy let you use her home as a steady rest-spot until then. BUT NO, you just had to become impatient! Sometimes life will throw things your way which you can’t possibly fathom of escaping.” Her eyes narrowed on the curvatures of his sharp steel linings of plate armor that bound him to life. “And sometimes… good things will come your way. Instead, you decided to turn down all our gifts of generosity towards you and now… and now...”
It only took a second for Mordekaiser to process that information.
“HAH! Generosity? Ahh, yes of course. I see now.” he said slyly, Rarity’s eyes were shifting from his tone.
“Yes, after I spared the yellow one’s life, I was thanked by being attacked by that magic purple equine. She generously showed me her kindness in its fullest extent I believe…”
Rarity could already see where this is going.
“I only wanted a way out of this insanity-ridden place of sunshine and rainbows. But noooo…” he imitated Rarity’s whining to mock her. “Being offered a home to rest in… is the same as being offered a place to stay. A PRISON if you want a better definition!” He raised his voice in anger.
“I wanted assistance to leave, not to stay in this forsaken place! And now look where we are: your princess will not cooperate with me and no one else on this damn land! My time is precious and I had to be generous in not wasting it.” He quickly grabbed Rarity’s hoof with one of his arms. She yelped in fright as the cold sting of metal burned on her skin from his clutch.
“So allow me to be generous and offer you, my gift.”
His voice filled with malice overtaking itself into a vile laughter, he released a portion of his affliction into the defenseless unicorn. She screamed and shouted in terror before going sick and limp. Bags were under her eyes, her skin had a tinged of green to it and it looked like she had caught the flu. Rarity hadn’t felt sicker in her life. Fortunately for her, she was alive, but just barely.
What was unfortunate was immediately after receiving her ‘gift’, Mordekaiser chucked her over his shoulder through the fog. The flying unicorn landed right on top of Applejack’s orange stomach in pain while kicking Rainbow in the nose causing grunts in all of them. Rainbow had finally gotten a bit more conscious from her impact, but her head was still standing on the ground with her hind-legs upwards.
Without wanting to waste any time, Mordekaiser continued onwards looking for more ponies to obtain ‘unofficial kills’ from. Killing their disposition to fight was better in his opinion. It was odd though, the tickle in his chest came back again and quickly left.
Maybe it pacified him or maybe it only tickled because being touched by a rainbow is a once-in-a-death-time experience.
Through the gloomy darkness, he stopped in his tracks.
A box.
Past matches from his league experience flooded and polluted his thoughts. He took a step forward towards the wooden entity.
“SURPIRSE!”
A bright and colourful pink pony of vibrant energy and happiness leaped out from the tiny box showering the master of metal with confetti and balloons.
“Were you surprised, were you, were you, you big meenie? You or that craaaazy flying ghost can’t sneak up on me! I can already hide in the dark, but I hid in a dark box in the dark! It was my ultimate scheme to get you to laugh, smile and enjoy everything even though you are a giant walking cheese grater from a different dimension!” she beamed with a fit of giggles and laughter.
Not only did Mordekaiser despise the burst of laughter and surprise from this pink pony, but he also had to be reminded of those boxes. The pink equine just kept laughing and hopping around. Prancing up and down like a raving mad creature from this cartoon-world of magical talking ponies. Whatever threshold the Kaiser of Morde’s sanity was before was nothing compared to the large mental snap he felt in his helmet.
He grabbed her with both of his arms on her shoulders to restrain her bounces.
“WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!?” he shouted with a force of a gale of wind into her face. “ARE YOU TRYING TO MOCK ME EVEN MORE THAN THIS WORLD ALREADY HAS!?”
“What? I don’t understand what you’re talking about, silly!”
“Oh, you know. You definitely know…” he let go of her. “YOU HARLEQUINN!” He slammed his mace down into the castle tiles causing a massive shockwave.
“You have NO IDEA what you are mocking! That jester laugh, your hiding, YOUR BOXES! YOUR DAMN BOXES! I am hunting down your friends quickly and brutally and all you do is sit back and LAUGH AS YOU PLAY A GAME OF HIDE-IN-A-BOX!? You remind me too much of a crazy maniacal clown champion.”
“Only this time, the jester is a DAMN PONY!”
“HEY! You can’t associate me with crazies! That would be crazy! You could just be a little bit nicer you know! I did wait in that box for you! I wanted that surprise to brighten up your day! Not turn you away on one of your memory delusions!”
“You don’t know me.”
“I wanted to know you. Before all of this crazy stuff! I mean, who runs around swinging a mace? That just sounds silly! From what you told us, your world sounded like a really nasty place to live. That’s why I wanted to make you smile--”
“My head is a helmet.” Mordekaiser quickly interrupted her.
“Make your life better--”
“I’m dead.”
“Make you laugh?”
“I don’t see how saying, “Mordekaiser es numero uno huehuehuehue” any more is going to change my opinion.”
“Well…” Pinkie said trying to think. She couldn’t and swung her hoof back. “It was worth a shot!”
“And you failed because of it.” Mordekaiser said.
“Wh-what do you mean?” she asked, the fun in her stopped for a moment. Her ears were shifting down behind her head and her voice got scratchy trying to comprehend even more heartless riddles this giant will tell her.
“You were so busy trying to help me that instead the rest of your friends are doomed to share a similar fate that Sombra has obtained.” He said to her with a sneer. “Yes, yes, good job pink equine. Good job on trying to make someone happen in expense of your friend’s happiness. You can feel it can you?”
“F-feel…?”
“Their pain. Their sense of loss. The dread and despair overshadowing them every minute this room is covered in this fog. Oh, but not you! You had to give me… a surprise; all in the cost of your friends’ happiness. Well done.” He mocked a laugh for her.
He could see the pink pony’s appearance began to shift. Her hair once springy and puffy now replaced to strands of discolouration. She was a loss for words. She could only feel sadness. Not only with what he said to her was true, but that she failed to spark a life filled with joy for the hollow-spirited beast. He could feel the amount of misery and torment his handiwork had done. He couldn’t have enjoyed it more; he really had outdone himself on this one.
“Now go to the ones who have already incurred my wrath, and think about what you’ve done.”
He pointed her to the direction of the friends of hers who have already met with the master of metal. With her head down and her body drooping she sulked away in sniffling silence. Once she parted through the fog, Mordekaiser looked down to see the box the pink equine once popped out from.
He slammed a boot through it and splintered the wood to pieces.
“I… hate… boxes.”
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Twilight stumbled around within the immense confides of the fog. It’s only been a couple of minutes since Sombra had worked his evil magic and already Twilight could tell things had already gotten horribly wrong. The sounds and screeches from her friends before alerted her to the fact that likely Sombra or Mordekaiser had already got to them. It was honestly the most horrifying noises she could have heard in her lifetime.
Being lost in the fog with no idea where to turn made everything all the worse.
Twilight called out her friends’ names, each one she cried a desperate plea, and the five responses she expected were all silent.
The one response she did not expect was a spectral stallion rushing through her body. The ghostly cold of death passing over her chilled her spine and soul as it took her breath away momentarily.
“Fear…” Sombra said threateningly as he rested on a floating patch of fog.
“I-I’m not afraid of you, Sombra! We destroyed you once before and we will again!” Twilight shouted back trying to shake off the chill of Sombra’s decay.
“Grrrr… not… me…” his voice trailed off into a whisper as he flew off.
Twilight couldn’t shake the feeling of what he meant; the large amounts of confusion she had to endure today were reaching her peak. Not to mention just how paranoid she was. She finally did understand what the tyrant meant when she was suddenly grabbed by a cold metal claw from behind.
She yelped when she was lifted up into the air. She was twisted to turn and face a pair of frightening red eyes peering sinisterly from a metal helmet.
“M-Mordekaiser…”
“Hello again, equine. Did you miss me? I certainly won’t miss you with my mace!” He held his mace in his other hand and swung it threateningly with ease.
“You can’t stop the Princess, Mordekaiser! She’s too powerful, even for you!”
“Oh really… Unlike you?” He could feel not just the pain of anger through her, but also her magical levels and strengths. “You do happen to have a strong connection with the forces of magic. Quite strong in fact.”
He pressed her closer towards his helmet.
“However, your ability power… is weak. It makes sense that you have nothing in your build other than those lower-skilled magic artifacts you call the Elements. Pathetic.”
“Well, at least I’m not running around beating up random ponies and stealing bits to buy things that make it easier to continue beating up everypony!” She craned her neck over to see some objects sticking out from under Mordekaiser’s cape.
Mordekaiser had indeed switched his item arsenal when he first arrived at Canterlot’s front gates, before the siege. He remembers terrifying the shopkeeper well.
“You’re the one running around with items stapled under your cloak! What are those anyway?”
“THEY ARE MAGNETIC YOU FOOL!” Mordekaiser shouted in her face.
Immediately, a small hourglass filled with immense ancient power of invulnerability and being stronger than the universe itself fell out from the dark confides of his cape and smashed in half on the ground.
“… I don’t need that.”
After regaining his composure and fixing up any loose items from his build inside his cape he turned his attention back to the defenseless and feeble pony he held within his clutches.
“Any last words before you become a part of my ever-growing list of demise?”
Without waiting another moment Twilight burst, “You could have waited!” Mordekaiser raised an eyebrow at this. “It would’ve only been a day…” A tighter grip formed around the equine’s abdomen. “… a few hours?”
“Waiting is for cowards who don’t seize the opportunity right in front of their face,” Mordekaiser said to her.
Twilight understood those words and what they meant, seeing as she has no alternative, she raised a quick hoof and slammed it in Mordekaiser’s armor. Only it bounced off without so much as a dent.
“Ow…” she said holding her hoof in pain.
“Nice try.”
Taking her completely by surprise, Mordekaiser threw her high into the air. Twilight panicked and brought up a small protective lavender shield around herself if she was going to crash on the way down. As she fell, she could see through the fog that the Kaiser’s mace was readying for a strike.
Like a bat to a baseball, Mordekaiser hit a homerun, a surge of exploding energy, and sent Twilight and her now-brutally shattered shield through the dense fog and out the end to where the rest of her friends were groaning in pain. The wall was a suitable obstacle in breaking her speed.
Back in the fog, Mordekaiser picked up his mace and turned to find the sixth pony he had to find. Fortunately, standing behind him trying not to whimper was a timid yellow Pegasus.
“You. It’s been too long.” Mordekaiser started to say but stopped when he noticed her eyes.
She was giving him the most sinister death glare he has ever witnessed. He was petrified, it felt as though she was peering right through him and trying to locate his soul so she could tear it up from the inside out.
“You—you’re a monster… To think I held compassion for you. To think I thought about becoming friends with you! But you… you, DO NOT HURT MY FRIENDS! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF!”
Mordekaiser was transfixed he couldn’t move. His hand was shaking, trying to curl itself into a fist, trying to fight the gaze that the yellow equine was giving him. This invisible force was unlike anything he has felt before.
His metal fingers began to angle towards his palm trying to fight this insufferable graze.
Outside the fog, Celestia finally had enough time to rest and relieve herself of her headache. Noticing the ominous clouds of dark fog swirling in the distance she gave a sigh.
“I hope they are all right.”
Summoning as much positive and light magic as she could in her horn, focusing and channeling the flow through her mind, she released a large wave of yellow brilliant energy towards the fog, it broke through the layers destroying each puff with a forceful gust of magic until nothing remained but two figures standing and five figures rolling and groaning in agony.
“MORDEKAISER!” Celestia shouted at him, now noticing him standing precariously over Fluttershy.
“Fluttershy!” Applejack shouted from across the room, the only one not to be completely writhing in pain. However, she quickly went back to it.
Fluttershy repeated herself to what she said to Mordekaiser.
“What. Do. You. Have. To. Say. For. Yourself?” She spoke each word assertively and with a fierceness no pony could have ever expected from her.
A long pause came from the metal suit of armor.
His hand was now curled into a ball, trying to fight control of his senses. Of the five ponies he has had the pleasure of beating; this one was proving to be a far greater challenge.
“Be… hind me… is… a P-Pentakill.”
The more he spoke, the stronger he could feel himself regaining control. His clutched hand was irradiating his affliction.
“Misery… loves company…” He could feel the affliction within him getting stronger.
“Your… gaze will fall… and so… will… the… PRINCESS! RAAH!”
He released his pent up energy, a field of metallic shards and fragments exploded from his body and scattered across the room imbedding the sharp pieces into the walls of the castle. It was a miracle that none of them splintered through any ponies. Though Fluttershy, her effect now broken fell down into a scared nervous breakdown.
“Fluttershy…”
She looked up to see that it was Mordekaiser who spoke her name. She could tell he was trying to hide a snicker after saying the name, yet was intensely serious.
“I should have killed you in that forest, I didn’t however.” He continued, “It was all a part of my glorious scheme. A scheme of which I would gain an audience with your princess, where I could return to my world without any worse for the wear.”
“I saved you so that I could use you as collateral should things not head my way. And here we are.”
He turns over his shoulder and looks back on the five ponies he had either hurt or demoralized.
“Your kindness was my greatest weapon of abstraction in this realm of equines. For now, I have an unofficial pentakill. No matter how inconclusive it looks, your world mocks me so I shall mock it!” He crushed his hand into a tight powerful grip in front of Fluttershy, wisps of pale decay and death emanated from it.
“The friendships all of you have made all have made to protect one another have all been severed. I sensed in each one that it was you who still wanted to ‘befriend’ me. Note that I do not care, nor have I ever cared. Your act of kindness for me was your own downfall. For that, I thank you in making my goals that much closer to my grasp.”
Fluttershy couldn’t believe her ears; Mordekaiser had been using her this whole time. Any moment she had felt remorse for him was crushed like an object under the weight of his boots. He was a jerk, and poor Fluttershy had fallen in trying to be kind to a being whose kindness was gone since death.
Suddenly he spoke again, “I may be a manipulative general, but I am not unkind. Your friends are still alive and will be until their times come. But know that since this world has mocked me, I will classify that pile of insufferable ponies as a penta.” He could see the look of desolation on her face, the misery that filled her heart, and the torment that was playing on inside her head.
Was he so merciless that he didn’t feel a thing other than bliss after seeing the sad yellow pony’s face? Yes, yes he was.
He moved his arm to her head; she shuffled in fear of what he might do. What he did was far beyond what any could expect. He patted her on the head.
“Adorable. Run along now.”
Fluttershy with her head down left Mordekaiser to go help and tend to her friends in pain. Mordekaiser looked ahead to see his goal, Princess Celestia. Her brow furrowed when he focused his attention onto her.
“Now Princess… where were we at? I believe I was about to humiliate you for your insolence.”
“You’re unbelievable you know that?! Never in all my years could I have met such a heartless being!” she shouted back at him.
He laughed, “I have no heart. Not anymore.”
He shifted his eyes across the room and they took a few seconds to look at a certain wall before gazing back into Celestia’s.
“I have dealt with your ‘minions’… how will you fare against mine?”
Unexpectedly, Sombra charged through a wall in his ghostly visage and rushed towards the celestial Alicorn. He has been waiting for this moment for over a thousand years and he can’t wait to savour the death of the one who had locked him away.
Unfortunately for Sombra that was not on Celestia’s plan for today, she shot a beam of electrifying magic towards him, hitting right in his chest. He tumbled from the air and landed on the metal-torn floor, paralysed from the pain of Celestia’s attack.
“You have a tremendous amount of power, Princess.” Mordekaiser sneered from across the room.
“I have enough to banish both you AND Sombra into a cold and uncomfortable prison!”
“Well now… that hardly seems fair. After all, I haven’t even BEGUN to show my true power, mortal!”
This caused Celestia to stagger, trying to prevent herself from the distraction of rage within her being. Just how powerful is this menace!? It has to be a bluff. I will not be fooled into lowering any of my defenses again. She remembered the migrane which had fortunately passed.
“Behold behind me, we have what I like to call… a Pentakill. Now, I wonder what will happen when I reach six.”
“You can’t kill me Mordekaiser! And if you hurt Fluttershy or anyone else, I will do worse than simply banish you to the SUN!” her voice echoed and spiked fury and wrath. Mordekaiser was unimpressed, after all…
“Death would be too good for the likes of you.”
Mordekaiser raised his arm high into the air, he held all his fingers up and began to pull each one down every second. To Celestia and the recovering ponies it looked like counting. When he reached his last finger, his index, he said to Celestia with a powerful and loftier voice.
“Have you heard of my band?”
His finger dropped, and suddenly a loud roar torn through the air outside the castle. It quaked the building and nearly made Celestia lose her footing. She was reminded of who those terrible roars, that screech, belonged to.
“I told you, that getting my sixth kill was inevitable. Now then…”
Mordekaiser had no idea if anything would happen after getting that sixth kill. He was unsure what would happen, however, what he was sure was the land of Equestria functioned quite differently than Summoner’s Rift. There was no telling what would happen.
His chestplate began to glow, he howled out in pain as light began to pour out from the spot that Elemental Rainbow had hit him. Soon a magical light enveloped Mordekaiser to the point where no one could focus on his brightness yet could only hear his cries of agony. Thunder boomed and lightning erupted from the light. The sound of a guitar quickly amplified to a deafening boom of metal. A laugh echoes within the confides of the light.
When the lightshow ended, a cracking noise erupts from where Mordekaiser stood proudly. His chestplate breaks off and disintegrates into nothingness without hitting the ground. It revealed a pale-skinned chest, ripped in muscular greatness.
Even a pair raging biceps could not be held by metal, destroying and shattering them into the same disintegration as the chestplate. Mordekaiser grabbed his mace which exploded revealing an electric red guitar in the shape of an axe.
Lightning coursed through its cords sending ripples of metal sound through the air.
“I like my music how I like my weapons: heavy and METAL!”
He shouted before strumming away madly and grinding the strings of his axe with superb skill and speed. Never missing a cord or a note, he sent a wave of metal sound through the air. Celestia had to put her hooves over her ears to cover up the racket she heard.
“WELCOME TO, PENTAKILL! Prepare yourself Celestia, FOR THE CHORDS OF DESTRUCTION!”
Pinkie who was sitting on the sidelines along her friends got excited, “OOOHH! I have all their CD’s!” She brought out a case and opened them to reveal nothing. Her joy still killed she went back to moping. “Too bad I left them at home…”
His vocals boomed as the sounds of his band played in the background. He didn’t know how that was possible, but finally this world has done something he enjoyed!
Celestia was beyond horrified, so was every pony in the room. Even Sombra who was incapacitated could hardly believe what was going on. Now they can all finally see that Mordekaiser does not belong in this world, and that his actions may not be justified but rather made more sense.
"TIME TO SHRED!"
Celestia could only recoil in his taste of music. But she wasn’t about to let that stop her from putting this beast in his place. No one comes to Equestria to do the atrocities he made (and promised to further make) and gets away with it. Her magic exploded and enveloped around her casting a shimming bright light throughout the throne room. The intensity of her light was like walking on the surface of the sun. The floor tiling melted under her hooves as she approached her brutish adversary. This fight was going to be one for the ages.
The only question that lingered in everypony’s head was one none of them could have figured out.
“How did he get that sixth kill to transform like that?”
----- Roughly two minutes ago before the starting Age of the 6th Kill --------
Cho’gath wasn’t a fan of heights. He didn’t like flying and he certainly didn’t like falling. So it made sense the moment when that brute of a metal statue tossed him through a wall and out a window, he was more than a little peeved at that ruthless suit of armor’s inconsideration of gentlemanly duels.
Oh how he would have loved to have fulfilled his daily amount of iron from at least one of Mordekaiser's arms.
During the entire time Mordekaiser had spent playing hide-and-demoralize in the fog of magical pony friendship, he had been falling and falling and falling.
Canterlot was situated on top of a large cliff. So it made sense that the fall would be long. But he never expected it to be THAT long. So he fell, and fell, reminiscing on everything that has happened in his life. He remembered all the good meals and champions he devoured, the dinners with Discord were fantastic and it was a nice change of pace playing Ambassador from the Void. He hoped to one day be able to do those activities again soon.
Though, in this situation he couldn’t tell if there would even be a next time.
Eventually, the giant red menacing monster had fallen quite a bit from the castle’s mountain to get noticed by two passing guards doing ground patrol.
“Hey, do you see that up in the sky?”
“Yeah, dunno what that is though, looks red.”
“Looks kind of big too. Think it might be another one of those ambassadors that Discord fellow occasionally brings?”
“How would I know? I’m stuck on the patrol under this giant rock we call a mountain all day!”
The two guards still couldn’t distinguish what was falling from the sky, but they knew to back away because of its size. It wasn’t until the object got in enough range for the guards to hear its terrifying screams.
First, they saw a giant red blur, and as it landed into a nearby tiny bush roughly one-third of its size, the creature disappeared. Presumably, despite its size, Cho’gath went hidden the moment he entered it causing the guards to flinch out of what just happened.
The only sound the two guard ponies heard before the screams halted from the red creature was a sickening
